> Okay, I can understand your house, but unless you are using a
> satellite or
> microwave to transmit, how does the message get out? Maybe be very stupid
> question, but wondering about local telex or cable systems, ect ect.

It's DSL, which is powered by the telephone company.  My server, router and
Ethernet switch are all on UPSes, but as soon as one of them dies, the list
will become inaccessible.  I'm not especially inclined to find out how long
they'll keep going after the power goes out, though.

The one thing I've never managed to get set up is a system to automatically
shut down the computers when the power fails, in case I'm not here.  I only
have one UPS that can signal, so I'd have to have one computer tell all the
others to shut down.  In theory, I can do it with some software from APC,
but it's been a paint to get it working even on one machine.

Nick
I understand that, but does the telex have full UPS, probably generator based? How big of an outage would there be before you couldn't send anything?

Wondering if this is the same around the country: I can think of 4 local telex buildings I know, they are completely windowless, not even mail slots. Is it that way everywhere? Why?

Kevin T.

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