… While a UPS is 3-4x the cost of a battery backup, they are not all made equal. Brownouts, flickering power, and power surges won’t always trigger a battery backup, but a UPS filters that power, so devices gain steady and consistent power. What’s the difference between a UPS is the process of filtering power. UPS Battery Backup (uninterruptible power supply ( UPS) for your WiFi Router. Power Outages- There is a fairly inexpensive to stay connected during a power outage. The downside to WiFi is if there is a power outage you lose your internet connection and ability to get alerts. WiFi – Typically comes from a landline and usually very reliable. For your home’s Internet connection to stay up, there are (typically, but not always) fewer links in the upstream chain that need to stay powered-usually just your ISP’s local termination point.” Cellular access depends on backup batteries or generators at multiple affected locations staying online-you need the towers up and operating, you need their backhaul links operating, and you need the power up at the uplink point where the cell towers’ backhaul connects to the rest of the Internet. “First, from a perspective of access, keeping Wi-Fi available rather than having to fall back to cellular data during a storm means you have a better chance of staying online. There are a lot of carriers, some have better coverage and reliability than others. It was really a process of what we felt was the most reliable.īluetooth- has a limited range and often loses connection.Ĭellular – you can lose a signal in thunderstorms which often cause interference or dropped service.

People ask us from time to time, why we went with WiFi?

Wifi vs bluetooth vs cellular