“Power outages happen frequently where we live, so we plugged the router to this UPS, But once the power goes out, the wifi is also down because it resets, which is confusing because isn’t the point of plugging it into the UPS having it uninterrupted?”
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You misunderstand what a UPS is for. It's not meant to generate enough power to keep your equipment running. It's meant to provide only enough power to allow you to shutdown equipment safety, and it provides protection to your equipment to reduce potential damage from surges when the power to your house resumes.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The wifi router (to distribute the signal) and the Modem (cable, wireless/cellular, or satellite) would also need to be plugged in. NOTE: this is a relatively inexpensive unit. The capacity of the battery is small. This is more intended to provide time for you to be able to either 1) shut your stuff down, save your work., and, 2) eliminate "brown outs" - the small changes that you wouldn't notice with a light bulb, but that would have adverse affects on sensitive electronics, like a desktop computer. Brown outs are just small quick drop fluctuations in the power. 3) surge protector - to protect against the temp high peaks that might come through. In effect, it delivers "cleaner" and "safer" power to sensitive devices, and gives you a BRIEF period to be able to shut stuff down. PRO TIP: DO NOT overload this thing. Plug in the mission critical stuff - you NEED to see the monitor, and have the computer on it. Don't put a bunch of other stuff on it, as the battery will drain that much faster in a "black out" or total power outage. If you have a cellular based wi-fi modem, and you dedicated it to this, and you were working on a tablet/phone/laptop with it's own battery power, then, going back to the OP, if it was ONLY powering that, get some decent run time if that was all that was plugged in. But that sort of scenario is better addressed with much much larger units for more equipment, whether you stay in the land of UPS, or consider the modern, and way more flexible "Power Station". Good Luck
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