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- From: 76711.2013@compuserve.com (Niel Loeb)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house,comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm
- Subject: Re: Lightning vs. My Modem (Round 5)
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:18:12 -0500
- Organization: Turner Broadcasting Company
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <76711.2013-2103960918120001@cnnmac9760.turner.com>
- References: <GE03429.96Mar20073652@loads1.mar.lmco.com>
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-
- In article <GE03429.96Mar20073652@loads1.mar.lmco.com>,
- 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.
-
- Nothing is faster than lightning... not even a surge suppressor. If you
- read the manual, you will see that repeated.
-
- The only way to guarantee protection is to unplug it.
-
- --Niel
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