Re: [Sheflug] Re: ADSL modems

[Peter Collier <pecb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 May 2003 7:05 pm, you wrote:
> Hi
>
> > My parents' did last year. Friends in the Peak Park have had it
> > happen on occasion. I usually unplug sensitive stuff from the mains
> > & phone lines when a bad storm goes overhead.
>
> I've seen a few.  One of the more notable ones was the Pegasus Mail
> for winduhs person out in the States whose house got struck by
> lightning.  The modem blew up and then the computer shortly
> afterwards thus causing a fire which damaged a lot of his house.
> That was about 3-5 years ago.  Didn't do him or his familly a lot of
> good.
>
> Best to earth modems or routers if you can.

	Thanks for the response everyone. I live in Buxton, which probably due to 
it's high altitude, seems to have a high damage rate to modems & cordless 
phones from lightning.
	Regarding the rebooting; If the phone line is unplugged & later plugged back 
in, my router doesn't establish a connection unless it is rebooted. Also the 
computers connected to the router, lose permission to network link to the 
router if the router reboots. Therefore, I have to reboot the computers as 
well. Perhaps I have something set up wrong but it appears like a good 
security feature?

	Peter
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