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Last night - Flash - Bang - POP




Zoom X4 ADSL Modem - Fried & Dead

WAN side Sonicwall Soho3 - Fried & Dead


How do you protect against this? LAN side of SW is OK & I can access it but can't get to WAN side. Cable OK/changed.

GAHHHHH!!






(& whilst I was on CS whooping a$$ )

Hanslow

You can now get surge protectors for modem/cable/phone lines (according to our leccy expert at work as we were talking about this today). As he is an expert on antennae and the like (we do leccy simulation modelling) we were talking about lightning conductors and about it travelling through aerial leads, phone lines, power lines, etc. Obviously power leads can be covered with surge protectors and I think someone has recognised the other vulnerabilities so you can now get protectors for them

As for your problem...is the socket dead in the wall? Could have fried part of your switch? Best thing to do (if you can) is swap parts with other people and see if you can work out what's dead.

What't the hell is pocky anyway?

Markus

I've got a monster cable power thingy. It's a 12 socket thing and has build in surge/clean power for all devices, plus it also has surge protection for phone and cable connections.

Am sure you can get this or something similar in the UK

_Meridian_

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Even PC Pants sell surge-protection four- and six-way trailing sockets which have phone line protection. Belkin make them, plus a few others.


M

Scoobychick

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Yep we got one from Comet with phone line protection after losing our ADSL modem to lightning last year.

Edit to say I think it was Argos, anyway both stores sell them

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I've got a UPS & the actual devices were on surge protectant sockets but not the pocking ADSL line

The socket itself is fine - I borrowed a spare ADSL modem from work & thats what I was using last night.

Pocky (tm) or Pocking (tm) is a swear-filter friendly expletive. Any resemblance to a user on this BBS is entirely co-incidental!

Graz

Best bet is to unplug it during a storm. There's no guarantee that the surge protectors and the likes will save you, if it takes a direct hit everything will get fried, the electricity will jump the gaps.

Just be glad you didn't have a corded phone up against your ear at the time it was hit

DaveD

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Had a lightning strike kill a pc a few years ago.
We had a telegraph pole outside the house, and one *very* close lightning strike

The arc appeared to come into the pc through the phone line, track across from the modem through the motherboard onto the case and back through the 13 amp plug. There was no real physical evidence of thousands of volts having passed through, but modem and motherboard were dead.

Always unplugged the pc from the phone line after that!!

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I guess my Sonicwall FIREWALL actually did it's job

Good thing to as I have 2 servers & 3 w/stations on the other side....

kelvin

I had the same thing this week after the storms Lost a HD and a stick of RAM it would seem - both are proving to be PITA's now HD is totally dead (not even recognised by the BIOS), and with the RAM inserted, the damn thing Blue Screen's every 5 minutes

All of my equipment is surge protected except for the incoming ADSL signal which is piped up from the modem downstairs (not surge protected). The modem seems to have escaped somehow

Ho-Hum... the joys of technology!

K.