Re: A economical solution

["BruceR" <br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I use this for resetting my Stargate & my router remotely.
http://www.smarthome.com/300602.html

> I'm looking for a solution to my want, anyone with advice/suggestions
> it's appreciated.
>
> I would like to be able to call home, have a device pickup the call in
> concert with my answering machine, and I'd like to be able to tell the
> new box to turn off & then a momment later back on (or just
> powercycle) a router in my home office
>
> The difficulty I'm seeing (after reading a lot of historical posts in
> this group) is that the device I want to powercycle (my router
> actually) sits behind a very nice UPS, which conditions the power (and
> presumably would eat a standard house wiring x-10 signal)
>
> For the momment, my entire desire is to powercycle that one low-juice
> sucking device, with something that sits between the UPS and the
> Router--  and works..  in the future, I can forsee the possibility
> where I'd like to also power-cycle a computer behind the same UPS- so
> something expandable would be nice also..
>
> anyone have reccomendations for this situation?  the phoneline in, and
> router device, are about 100ft & two walls apart... and running a
> cable is not (cough wife) practical.