- Do you...
- Posted by Brett... on July 5th, 2005
....unplug your ADSL router from the phone connection during a thunderstorm?
I do after having lost a Pace 56K modem during a storm a few years ago.
Actually it wasn't a storm as such, just a single clap of thunder but you
get my drift.
--
Brett
- Posted by PlusNet Support Team on July 5th, 2005
Brett... wrote:
I have a surge protector.
Kind Regards,
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- Posted by jasper on July 5th, 2005
On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 18:46:45 +0100, PlusNet Support Team
<support@plus.net_> wrote:
Surely a thunderstorm would result in a spike rather than a surge ?
Jasper
- Posted by Dave on July 5th, 2005
"Brett..." <blaniosh@saltwells.dudley.gov.uk> wrote in message
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Dave
- Posted by Rob Gibson on July 5th, 2005
"Dave" <nospam@nopam.com> wrote in message
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Disconnect! I have a surge protector and UPS, but when the fireworks start I
run for cover. Unplug the mains too.
Rob.
- Posted by Martin² on July 6th, 2005
NO, I don't read posts with NO ( intelligible ) subject...
- Posted by Dave on July 6th, 2005
"Martin²" <never@give.one> wrote in message
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And you contradict yourself ! ;-)
- Posted by Harry on July 6th, 2005
"Brett..." <blaniosh@saltwells.dudley.gov.uk> wrote in message
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Ok do I unplug all the phones and modems and TV aerials.... NO.
I have insurance, I sit in the conservatory and watch the storm.
H.
- Posted by T i m on July 6th, 2005
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 10:23:12 +0100, "Harry"
<HarryStottle@philosophers.net> wrote:
That was what the students were doing when the Multiplexer next to
them burst into flames during a thunderstorm (I was sent to 'repair'
it .. .. it went straight in the skip after the Insurance Co had
looked at it).
AFAIK, there isn't a devce yet invented (fuse, NLR, FET etc) that can
react fast enough to truely protect against a lightening induced spike
(but these 'surge protectors' may help lower the impact).
All the best ..
T i m
- Posted by kim on July 6th, 2005
"Brett..." <blaniosh@saltwells.dudley.gov.uk> wrote in message
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If I'm not downloading anything urgent I power-down and unplug from the
mains.
(kim)
- Posted by Ian Stirling on July 8th, 2005
T i m <news@spaced.me.uk> wrote:
Of course there are - it's possible to protect from direct strikes.
Just bloody expensive.
Wireless ADSL/modem plugged into a car battery is pretty close to as
good as it gets cheaply.
