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- From: dsterner@neosoft.com (Don Sterner)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house,comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm
- Subject: Re: Lightning vs. My Modem (Round 5)
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 13:52:53 GMT
- Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800
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- Message-ID: <4irmvl$amp@uuneo.neosoft.com>
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- In article <GE03429.96Mar20073652@loads1.mar.lmco.com>,
- ge03429@loads1.mar.lmco.com says...
- >
- >
- > 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.
- >
-
- Regardless of what the phone company says, you've got a local problem.
- We have many lightning storms in this area. I lost one modem, but that
- was with a strike that hit our house and the adjacent power pole
- directly (splintered power pole was spread all over our yard). Other
- than that, I've never had a problem and I've been using modems on
- PCs since 1977.
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