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ark_ader:
Get a Trendnet and you will be safe until next year when the weather comes back for your new router. ;D
protokatie:
Shorten Those Links!
Get one of these next time. Although the coax surge protector may become fried, and it may fry the modem (due to the extremely high current and voltage) just having one more thing for the spike to go through could have saved the router.
protokatie:
--- Quote ---"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?"
--- End quote ---
Umm... Don't like to call people out, but don't you mean "That lightning travelled 5 miles from the pole/ground and went up to the sky". Remember which way the electrons flow...
ChadTower:
There are like 15 known types of lightning... the most common ones are discharging downwards.
MustardTent:
--- 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.
--- End quote ---
I've been meaning to switch to DD-WRT from the default linksys firmware, but never got around to it. Choosing the correct binary was a little confusing, which also slowed the process down. After seeing your post, I checked out the tomato site -- very nice. Simple too. I spent a few minutes upgrading the firmware (choosing the correct one is exceedingly easy) and configuring static DHCP, which is the main reason I've wanted to upgrade (well, that and the fact that my linksys hangs once a month).
We'll see how it goes in the future, but I'm happy with Tomato so far. Clean interface, easy to use, and some great features. Took no time at all. I'd also like to point out that the firmware upgrade kept all my previous configuration from login password to wireless security settings.
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