Regulating Current to Router?

Gremmers · 26 Aug 2009 at 16:14

Hi,
Basically, I live on a farm and during milking times (15:00-17:00 & 6:00-8:00) the power draw from the motors is huge resulting in an unsteady current in the house. This is fine for most things, but my router gets borked every few minutes and has to be turned on an off during this period.
Is there a device I can stick in front of the plug to regulate the current? It's already on a surge protected gang, to no avail.
Any help much appreciated!

PistolPete · 26 Aug 2009 at 16:30

Hammer to crack a nut answer would be a UPS

#Chri5# · 26 Aug 2009 at 16:35

It's not that big a hammer - a cheap UPS would start around £50

J.B · 27 Aug 2009 at 10:51

A cheap UPS would be able to power your router for a couple of hours as well.

Thats the easiest solution.

PistolPete · 27 Aug 2009 at 11:13

£50 maybe still a big hammer. It's a little odd that this happens - the PSU should be a regulated PSU so should cope with a reasonable amount of mains voltage variation.
Is this an ADSL router? If so, are you sure the motors aren't producing lots of EMI which is causing drops in sync? What router is it?