I also set this up for her to recharge her cell phone and iPad here with surge protection

I had to look at a lot of units as I didn't need multiple ports, was not trying to protect a computer, didn't want a mix of ports some with surge protection and some not, and I wanted more than 15 minutes!

The surge protection plus battery backup will come in handy for utility failures, especially ones lasting 20 minutes or less.

The unit produces surge protection as an added benefit to the battery backup

This looked like the perfect solution for VOIP modem battery backup and surge protection.

When you remove the battery, any devices plugged into the UPS do not have back-up power, but they still have surge protection

For me, this "luxury" technology is worthwhile because my low-voltage modem and router have surge protection 100% of the time, so I moved my high-end surge protector to my higher-voltage connections: TV, DVR and DirecTV box

If you need longer times, you're in the wrong price range by a factor of 4.The surge protection it offers - which like any surge protector can be a bit of a crap shoot in terms of effectiveness, but still better far better than nothing

I also have a cordless phone charging station plugged into this, purely for the surge protection

I have my DSL wireless router plugged in to it; I've had more than one fried by lightning storms, so I'm hoping the surge protection on this is up to snuff

Bought one of these to provide surge protection and power backup for my router and FIOS gateway.