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A router draws a few watts. Keeping it alive through a cut costs $18, and it is the difference between a smart house and a house full of switches you cannot reach.
People spend $200 on cameras and sensors and then lose all of it to a $18 gap.
Think about when you actually want to look at your house. It is usually not while everything is running normally. It is during the cut, when the fridge is off and you are wondering whether the power came back.
That is the exact moment a WiFi-only setup goes silent.
What actually stops working
| What dies in a cut | Why |
|---|---|
| Cameras | They upload through the router. No router, no alert and no recording to the cloud. |
| Door and leak sensors | They reach you through the hub, and the hub reaches you through the router. |
| Every WiFi smart switch | The relay holds its last state, but you cannot change it. |
| Your ability to check | This is the one that matters. The house is fine; you just cannot see it. |
The house is fine. You just cannot see it. That is what you are paying $18 to fix.
The fix is a small battery that only feeds the router
A DC UPS sits between the wall and your router. Power present, it charges and passes through. Power gone, it keeps feeding the router from its own cell, with no switching gap and no noise.
It is not an inverter and it is not trying to run your house. It runs one small device, which is why it is cheap.
How long it lasts depends on what your router draws. Send us the model and we will tell you — we would rather check than quote you a number that turns out to be wrong.
While you are there: is the router itself the problem?
Half the “my internet is slow” complaints we hear are a router sitting in a corner of a concrete building, trying to cover three rooms it cannot reach.
A mesh pair costs less than most people expect, and it fixes coverage properly instead of adding another extender that halves your speed.
Do this first
Want to know what the router actually costs you per month? Put a metering plug on it. On most routers the answer is a couple of dollars a year — which is the point: it is the cheapest thing in the house to keep alive.
See it working
Cudy's own setup walkthrough for the mesh systems we stock.
Keep the house online through a cut
Together: $40.00
The DC UPS holds the router up; the mesh router makes sure the signal actually reaches the rooms your cameras are in. Ask us for runtime on your specific router.
Read next
If the cut itself is the thing you are fighting, start with the changeover switch — that is the one that stops somebody running downstairs.
And if you are protecting a house nobody is living in, read the house nobody is in, because there the answer is different: you want an alarm on a SIM card, not on WiFi.
