How to set up a UPS

fastfwd wrote:

patrickriley2010 wrote: i just really was hoping i could use something else instead of using one my my usb ports. And my UPS has ethernet passthrough, I know because I have them plugged into it. Ah, you must have a relatively new BE550G. The old ones (like mine) have a telephone-line passthrough, and I wasn't aware that APC had changed that part of the design. Good to know. USB is still the only way for the UPS to communicate with the NAS, though. If you're concerned about losing one of the NAS's USB ports, you can interpose a USB hub between the NAS and the UPS (and if the hub has a power adapter, plug it into one of the UPS's protected AC sockets so the hub will continue to function normally if there's a power outage).