homelab

10096 readers

3 users here now

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

CMonster@lemmy.ml

Recommended surge protector / power supply (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by markstos@lemmy.world to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

AT&T claims the reason their router, the BGW320-500 sometimes factory resets itself is because it’s designed to do this in response to unexpected power loss, and if the house didn’t lose power, the power strip / surge protector may be at fault.

Which I don’t doubt might be the case, I have old, cheap, generic power strip.

So recommend me a power / strip protector you trust with your uptime. While I don’t need a UPS, I wouldn’t mind /some/ battery backup to smooth over brief power issues.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] slackarr@piefed.ca 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

fuck at&at and their white box, if you have the means and desire to get rid of it check out pon.wiki, lots of us doing it on various ISPs.

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Nice. What do you use wifi access at home? One thing the AT&T box has done well enough has been to provide wifi access throughout the house.

[–] slackarr@piefed.ca 1 points 5 days ago

I use a tplink eap773, before that I used an old Asus router in AP mode until it died.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

You can buy an all in one "wireless router" or buy a wired router and connect to that a wireless access point.