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re: A UPS is as essential as virus protection.
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Cell towers, like most land line phone systems, have extensive battery or generator backups that allow some operation during outages. Four days is impressive, though. I would normally expect such systems to start crapping out in a day or so, especially under the kind of heavy usage that emergencies would create.

A UPS is less about being able to run your computer without power than it is about allowing you to back up and shut down gracefully before the battery runs down. Few such systems allow more than a short time of operation before they run out of juice, depending on how much power your system draws. I'm still running a CRT monitor, and you can believe I have a big UPS and a very short time to take advantage of it.

Almost all UPS units come with software that will instruct your computer to shut down properly after a certain time without line power, even if nobody is around.

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