# Please help with UPS power

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-with-ups-power/265543>\
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**Created:** [July 10, 2008, 2:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-with-ups-power/265543 "2008-07-10T02:33:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![sebus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@sebus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sebus)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 2:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-with-ups-power/265543/1 "2008-07-10T02:33:52Z")

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Hi, we keep having power outages in our area and my wife works from home. We have comcast cable and my wife works on a laptop running off a linksys broadband wireless router. Can someone recommend a UPS that can hold at least 2hrs of power for internet/pc after a power outage? I am looking on newegg but a $159 shows it can only hold power for 30min, which is not enough.

thanks  
S

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**Author:** ![Templarian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/templarian/32/7152_2.png) [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-with-ups-power/265543/2 "2008-07-10T03:47:47Z")

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Yea most UPS systems are only made to hold power till the unit has time to shut down (our server at work has [one](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16842101067) that lasts 30min). For a laptop drawing 65 watts and a router thats probably at like 40 watts. I would say you can stretch that 30minutes out for a while.

//edit, I don’t know enough about conversions of watts and such to figure out how long that would last (probably not 2hours). Why are you losing power so much?

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**Author:** ![sebus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@sebus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sebus)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-with-ups-power/265543/3 "2008-07-10T04:21:55Z")

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Not sure why the neighborhood is loosing power, I guess from the heat?.. I actually have a APC backup connected to my desktop but it has DSL input, I am not sure if a cable modem cable would work with that?