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- From: smayo@tiac.net (Scott Mayo)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house,comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm
- Subject: Re: Lightning vs. My Modem (Round 5)
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 21:14:42 -0500
- Organization: The Internet Access Company
- Message-ID: <f6b8.smail.smayo@tiac.net>
- References: <GE03429.96Mar20073652@loads1.mar.lmco.com>
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- In misc.consumers.house,comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm,
- ge03429@loads1.mar.lmco.com (Jeff Sents) wrote:
-
- <Last year we moved into our first house (a new house). Since then
- <our modem has been fried three times by lightning. Yes, after the
- <first time I got a modem surge protector. It didn't make it through
- <the first storm. After umpteen years in various apartments with
- <various modems and never having a problem like this I can't help think
- <that something's wrong. I've had the phone company out to check the
- <lines but they say everything is OK. Please note that these are not
- <even close hits, but distant strikes.
-
- Observations:
-
- 1) Is your nickname "Lucky" by any chance?
-
- 2) Are you prone to crying out "Give my creation life!" when turning
- on the PC?
-
- 3) PCs and Microwave ovens look remarkably similiar. You *did* install
- the modem in the ISA slot, right? And not in bacon crisper rack?
-
- More seriously, I think you want to bring the matter up with the
- surge protector manufacturer. You also want to make sure the surge
- protector is well grounded (and that you replace it shortly after
- you see it smoking.) Finally, consider unplugging the modem between
- uses. Maybe you could rig up a mock modem with cardboard and small
- strips of foil and little black plastic bits, and hook the line to that,
- as propitiation to the Thunder god, between usages. This is likely to
- work: that's all a modem really is anyway, and in any case Thor was
- never very bright.
-
- <*****************************************************************************
- <* Jeff R. Sents * \ / *
- <* Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems * _____-/\-_____ \ / *
- <* Marietta, GA, USA * \_\/_/ _____-/\-_____ *
- <* home: sents@netcom.com work: sents@lasc.lockheed.com \_\/_/ *
- <*****************************************************************************
- <<My views only, of course!>
-
- With all due respect, if that is the view you *usually* get of fighter
- planes, I submit that you have larger and more international problems
- on hand than just overly exuberant electrons.
-
-