[GRLUG] download slowdown

[Bob Kline]

A better UPS might be one of the
inexpensive inverters one can get
at places like Harbor Freight, a.k.a.
the Chinese Outlet Store.  Attach it
to a car battery.

The power might not be filtered well
enough for a PC, so plug your feeble
UPS in to it, and use an outlet on that.

    -- Bob


On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Mike Williams <knightperson at zuzax.com>wrote:

> Belkin started out just making computer cables. It's fairly recently that
> they've been making anything but really good cables, and I've had mixed
> results with their other stuff. I have one of their old serial port UPS's
> which has old but very functional Linux monitoring software, but I had a
> newer one that died young and didn't even have user-replaceable batteries.
> Their cables have always been top quality, and I think they should have
> stuck with that!
>
> On 02/22/2011 03:58 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Philip J. Robar<philip.robar at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> On Feb 22, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
>>>
>>>  Plausible; Belkin is Best Buy's off-brand.
>>>>
>>> While I'm not a fan of Belkin*, this is simply not true. Belkin is a
>>> fairly large, independent company that sells through numerous retailers—both
>>> online and off. (Check your local Wal-Mart/Sams for instance.)
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belkin
>>>
>>> Phil
>>>
>>> * I put them in the same general category as Monster Cables when it comes
>>> to price/performance and honesty.
>>>
>> Crap, you're right.  I had a major brain-fart; it was DYNEX I was
>> thinking of. Belkin's usually OK, though I don't think I ever bought
>> one of their routers.
>>
>>
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