Lightening Surges

[Ext User(John Dwyer)]

I recently had my modem destroyed by a voltage surge resulting from a
lightning strike near my house while I was online.

I wish to install a switch in the phone line connection to my computer, so
that I can disconnect the modem easily when the computer is turned off.

Does anyone have any recommendations on a suitable switch?

John Dwyer

[Ext User(Rod Speed)]

John Dwyer <dwyerjd@netspeed.com.au> wrote

> I recently had my modem destroyed by a voltage surge resulting from a
> lightning strike near my house while I was online.

> I wish to install a switch in the phone line connection to my computer,
> so that I can disconnect the modem easily when the computer is turned
> off.

> Does anyone have any recommendations on a suitable switch?

That lightning will go thru those.

The only really viable approach is to physically unplug the
phone line from the modem or just accept that modems are
cheap and that that sort of thing is quite rare in most areas.

[Ext User(Rod Speed)]

John Dwyer <dwyerjd@netspeed.com.au> wrote

> I recently had my modem destroyed by a voltage surge resulting from a
> lightning strike near my house while I was online.

> I wish to install a switch in the phone line connection to my computer,
> so that I can disconnect the modem easily when the computer is turned
> off.

> Does anyone have any recommendations on a suitable switch?

That lightning will go thru those.

The only really viable approach is to physically unplug the
phone line from the modem or just accept that modems are
cheap and that that sort of thing is quite rare in most areas.

[Ext User(Match)]

"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:45uh1kF8jgtcU2@individual.net...
> John Dwyer <dwyerjd@netspeed.com.au> wrote
>
>> I recently had my modem destroyed by a voltage surge resulting from a
>> lightning strike near my house while I was online.
>
>> I wish to install a switch in the phone line connection to my computer,
>> so that I can disconnect the modem easily when the computer is turned
>> off.
>
>> Does anyone have any recommendations on a suitable switch?
>
> That lightning will go thru those.
>
> The only really viable approach is to physically unplug the
> phone line from the modem or just accept that modems are
> cheap and that that sort of thing is quite rare in most areas.
>

Install lightning protection www.novaris.com.au

Match

[Ext User(Match)]

"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> John Dwyer <dwyerjd@netspeed.com.au> wrote
>
>> I recently had my modem destroyed by a voltage surge resulting from a
>> lightning strike near my house while I was online.
>
>> I wish to install a switch in the phone line connection to my computer,
>> so that I can disconnect the modem easily when the computer is turned
>> off.
>
>> Does anyone have any recommendations on a suitable switch?
>
> That lightning will go thru those.
>
> The only really viable approach is to physically unplug the
> phone line from the modem or just accept that modems are
> cheap and that that sort of thing is quite rare in most areas.
>

Install lightning protection www.novaris.com.au

Match

[Ext User(Rod Speed)]

Match <avolioREMOVE@cyberwizardsDotcomDotau> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> John Dwyer <dwyerjd@netspeed.com.au> wrote

>>> I recently had my modem destroyed by a voltage surge resulting from a
>>> lightning strike near my house while I was online.

>>> I wish to install a switch in the phone line connection to my computer,
>>> so that I can disconnect the modem easily when the computer is turned
>>> off.

>>> Does anyone have any recommendations on a suitable switch?

>> That lightning will go thru those.

>> The only really viable approach is to physically unplug the
>> phone line from the modem or just accept that modems are
>> cheap and that that sort of thing is quite rare in most areas.

> Install lightning protection www.novaris.com.au

No thanks, makes more sense to replace the modem instead.

[Ext User(Rod Speed)]

Match <avolioREMOVE@cyberwizardsDotcomDotau> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> John Dwyer <dwyerjd@netspeed.com.au> wrote

>>> I recently had my modem destroyed by a voltage surge resulting from a
>>> lightning strike near my house while I was online.

>>> I wish to install a switch in the phone line connection to my computer,
>>> so that I can disconnect the modem easily when the computer is turned
>>> off.

>>> Does anyone have any recommendations on a suitable switch?

>> That lightning will go thru those.

>> The only really viable approach is to physically unplug the
>> phone line from the modem or just accept that modems are
>> cheap and that that sort of thing is quite rare in most areas.

> Install lightning protection www.novaris.com.au

No thanks, makes more sense to replace the modem instead.

[Ext User(Dan N)]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:22:38 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:

> No thanks, makes more sense to replace the modem instead.

I agree. Modems are almost as cheap as the devices that protect them.

Dan

[Ext User(Dan N)]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:22:38 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:

> No thanks, makes more sense to replace the modem instead.

I agree. Modems are almost as cheap as the devices that protect them.

Dan

[Ext User(Hunter01)]

John Dwyer wrote:
> I recently had my modem destroyed by a voltage surge resulting from a
> lightning strike near my house while I was online.
>
> I wish to install a switch in the phone line connection to my computer, so
> that I can disconnect the modem easily when the computer is turned off.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations on a suitable switch?


Yep, a second modem. Hell of a lot cheaper, and when the surge gets past
whatever device you've got protecting your online modem (which it most
likely will) and blows it up and your expensive protection device as
well along the way, you'll still have the second modem to rely on. If
you really want to switch the phoneline away from the modem when not in
use it's much simpler just to reach around behind the modem and just
pull the cable out, only takes 2 seconds, but I'm surprised that in this
day and age there are still people out there that actually disconnect!

With modems now phasing out, and them costing the equivalent of a bag of
peanuts, it makes much more sense just to keep a spare on hand, even
people on the dole could afford that comfortably considering how rare a
modem blowing up is (only happened to me maybe twice over the period of
22 years that I've been using modems... Now I'll be more pissed off if
my 200 dollar ADSL router blows up, but I have a spare for that too,
even if it will bang me back down to an 8 meg connection not being ADSL2
capable).

[Ext User(Hunter01)]

John Dwyer wrote:
> I recently had my modem destroyed by a voltage surge resulting from a
> lightning strike near my house while I was online.
>
> I wish to install a switch in the phone line connection to my computer, so
> that I can disconnect the modem easily when the computer is turned off.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations on a suitable switch?


Yep, a second modem. Hell of a lot cheaper, and when the surge gets past
whatever device you've got protecting your online modem (which it most
likely will) and blows it up and your expensive protection device as
well along the way, you'll still have the second modem to rely on. If
you really want to switch the phoneline away from the modem when not in
use it's much simpler just to reach around behind the modem and just
pull the cable out, only takes 2 seconds, but I'm surprised that in this
day and age there are still people out there that actually disconnect!

With modems now phasing out, and them costing the equivalent of a bag of
peanuts, it makes much more sense just to keep a spare on hand, even
people on the dole could afford that comfortably considering how rare a
modem blowing up is (only happened to me maybe twice over the period of
22 years that I've been using modems... Now I'll be more pissed off if
my 200 dollar ADSL router blows up, but I have a spare for that too,
even if it will bang me back down to an 8 meg connection not being ADSL2
capable).

[Ext User(brian w edginton)]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:21:14 +0800, Hunter01 <hunter01@iinet.net.au>
wrote:

>but I'm surprised that in this
>day and age there are still people out there that actually disconnect!


I do it every night in the storm season. Ever since the time, a bit
over a year ago, that lightning took out my modem AND power supply.
Was told it could have done more damage.

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If this was a perfect world, we, probably, wouldn't
be in it.

[Ext User(brian w edginton)]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:21:14 +0800, Hunter01 <hunter01@iinet.net.au>
wrote:

>but I'm surprised that in this
>day and age there are still people out there that actually disconnect!


I do it every night in the storm season. Ever since the time, a bit
over a year ago, that lightning took out my modem AND power supply.
Was told it could have done more damage.

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If this was a perfect world, we, probably, wouldn't
be in it.

[Ext User(Rod Speed)]

Dan N <dan@localhost.localdomain> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote

>> No thanks, makes more sense to replace the modem instead.

> I agree. Modems are almost as cheap as the devices that protect them.

Much cheaper actually than what he was recommending.

[Ext User(Rod Speed)]

Dan N <dan@localhost.localdomain> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote

>> No thanks, makes more sense to replace the modem instead.

> I agree. Modems are almost as cheap as the devices that protect them.

Much cheaper actually than what he was recommending.

[Ext User(Xerxes)]

Rod Speed wrote:

> The only really viable approach is to physically unplug the
> phone line from the modem or just accept that modems are
> cheap and that that sort of thing is quite rare in most areas.
>
>

I have lived in an area with high thunder and lightning incidences. The
best solution is I found was to unplug modem and power source to computer
completely, especially if you going out of the day and the prospect of a
storm is there.

And when not using, again, unplug the lot.

[Ext User(Xerxes)]

Rod Speed wrote:

> The only really viable approach is to physically unplug the
> phone line from the modem or just accept that modems are
> cheap and that that sort of thing is quite rare in most areas.
>
>

I have lived in an area with high thunder and lightning incidences. The
best solution is I found was to unplug modem and power source to computer
completely, especially if you going out of the day and the prospect of a
storm is there.

And when not using, again, unplug the lot.

[Ext User(Clockmeister)]

"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Match <avolioREMOVE@cyberwizardsDotcomDotau> wrote
>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>> John Dwyer <dwyerjd@netspeed.com.au> wrote
>
>>>> I recently had my modem destroyed by a voltage surge resulting from a
>>>> lightning strike near my house while I was online.
>
>>>> I wish to install a switch in the phone line connection to my computer,
>>>> so that I can disconnect the modem easily when the computer is turned
>>>> off.
>
>>>> Does anyone have any recommendations on a suitable switch?
>
>>> That lightning will go thru those.
>
>>> The only really viable approach is to physically unplug the
>>> phone line from the modem or just accept that modems are
>>> cheap and that that sort of thing is quite rare in most areas.
>
>> Install lightning protection www.novaris.com.au
>
> No thanks, makes more sense to replace the modem instead.

Lightning will quite happily damage more then just the modem too.
Not always obvious after the initial strike either.

[Ext User(Clockmeister)]

"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Match <avolioREMOVE@cyberwizardsDotcomDotau> wrote
>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>> John Dwyer <dwyerjd@netspeed.com.au> wrote
>
>>>> I recently had my modem destroyed by a voltage surge resulting from a
>>>> lightning strike near my house while I was online.
>
>>>> I wish to install a switch in the phone line connection to my computer,
>>>> so that I can disconnect the modem easily when the computer is turned
>>>> off.
>
>>>> Does anyone have any recommendations on a suitable switch?
>
>>> That lightning will go thru those.
>
>>> The only really viable approach is to physically unplug the
>>> phone line from the modem or just accept that modems are
>>> cheap and that that sort of thing is quite rare in most areas.
>
>> Install lightning protection www.novaris.com.au
>
> No thanks, makes more sense to replace the modem instead.

Lightning will quite happily damage more then just the modem too.
Not always obvious after the initial strike either.

[Ext User(Clockmeister)]

"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Match <avolioREMOVE@cyberwizardsDotcomDotau> wrote
>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>> John Dwyer <dwyerjd@netspeed.com.au> wrote
>
>>>> I recently had my modem destroyed by a voltage surge resulting from a
>>>> lightning strike near my house while I was online.
>
>>>> I wish to install a switch in the phone line connection to my computer,
>>>> so that I can disconnect the modem easily when the computer is turned
>>>> off.
>
>>>> Does anyone have any recommendations on a suitable switch?
>
>>> That lightning will go thru those.
>
>>> The only really viable approach is to physically unplug the
>>> phone line from the modem or just accept that modems are
>>> cheap and that that sort of thing is quite rare in most areas.
>
>> Install lightning protection www.novaris.com.au
>
> No thanks, makes more sense to replace the modem instead.

Lightning will quite happily damage more then just the modem too.
Not always obvious after the initial strike either.