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Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: TOK on June 24, 2008, 06:04:50 am ---The craziest one I saw was a metal fence strike, which affected a house and car. The lightning the fence somewhere in the side yard.
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Current code around here calls for bonding the fence to the facility's ground system. I sub out the grounding and lightning protection stuff. Its PFM.
A customer asked me why the $400 he spent in surge protection didn't protect his equipment. Direct strike. I pointed to the top of the telco pole it struck (or rather, where the top of the pole WAS the night before) and said:
"That lightning just travelled 5 miles from the clouds to reach the top of that pole. Do you really think 6" across the surge protection will stop it?"
shmokes:
I actually suspect that the surge came in over the coax cable. The only things that were affected were the cable modem (completely fried) and the internet port on the router. The router works as a switch still. It's just the one port (unfortunately the most important one) that doesn't work anymore. Lots of things were plugged into that surge protector, but only those two devices were effected. Thus, I think the surge came in on the coax cable, killed the modem, and then traveled across the ethernet cable to kill that port on the router. Thank god it didn't get my TV, which also has a coax cable running directly into the back of it.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: boykster on June 24, 2008, 04:17:25 pm ---I would get a Linksys WRT54GL
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124190
and put Tomato on it:
http://www.polarcloud.com/firmware
I used to run DD-WRT, but IMHO Tomato is better.
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I'm running this setup. I didn't try DD-WRT, but Tomato seems fantastic. It does everything I want and the interface is great. Thanks for the tip.
ChadTower:
Hrm... I've been meaning to install DD-WRT for like a year. Maybe I'll check out Tomato instead.
BTW, now that we know exactly what router and firmware shmokes is using, who wants to be first to change his desktop to a picture of their junk? :laugh2:
boykster:
Looks like I need to update to 1.21 (still on 1.19) of tomato. I was a long-time user of DD-WRT and loved it, then serveral ppl suggested I try tomato - it's great.
:cheers:
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