luxxius wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: > >> Call me picky, but isn't it true that you can't *prevent* lightning >> strikes, only try to get them to hit something other than your >> aerial/golf club/tree/car/house? >> > > My only experience of a lightning strike was lightning hitting the > telegraph pole down the street, sending a big pulse down the phone line, > and frying the fax modem on my motherboard (along with its nearby > on-board network and the graphics). I guess surge protection wouldn't > help with that sort of thing? > snip...
Don't be so sure - my father lived in a remote part of the Highlands of Scotland and had 5 (yes five!) modems fried. I then bought him a combined power/phone lightning surge protector and never had another problem! Dom -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
