The power failure was a good chance for me to test the UPS I just bought. I identified two problems. The first was that I’d plugged the NBN box into it, but not the actual modem. So that was at least an easy fix.

The second problem was that the UPS is set to have a really loud intermittent beep when it runs on battery backup. Mr Woof evacuated to the backyard to avoid it and it was slowly driving me batty too. I did some research and found that it could be turned off, but you have to download software and connect it to the computer. So I downloaded the software, installed and connected everything, and it wouldn’t open the interface. I could get to the menu options but the one I needed was greyed out. Eventually I decided it might be because I’m using Windows 11 and it only listed up to 10 in its compatibility list. Running in compatibility mode didn’t work, so I dug out my old laptop, downloaded the program onto that and it worked perfectly. So the infernal beeps have now been silenced and I have uninterupted internet available.