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- From: shenning@fast.net (Stephen M. Henning)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.mac.comm
- Subject: Re: I've Had It With Supra 28.8. It's a piece of shit.
- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 13:18:51 -0500
- Organization: Boy Scouts of America
- Message-ID: <shenning-0901961318510001@abe-ppp320.fast.net>
- References: <49kmbp$3hn@news.mel.aone.net.au> <4cide8$7op@news.accessorl.net> <boobyen-0501961810470001@ip221.lax.primenet.com> <shenning-0701961212450001@abe-ppp315.fast.net> <4csesp$nss@hera.cuci.nl>
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- In article <4csesp$nss@hera.cuci.nl>, srb@cuci.nl (Stephen R. van den
- Berg) wrote:
-
- > >where a lightning strike will KO your telephone line. The telco installs
- > >lightning protection, but it usually allows spikes of 1,000 volts through
- > >and these will break down the insulation on most telephone wire. When
- > >this happens, it can melt the copper in the wire.
- >
- > This would actually be good. It would protect your equipment (at the cost
- > of some wiring).
-
- By the time the copper melts, the modem is dead unless it has secondary
- protection. I learned the hard way to get secondary protection for all
- modems.
-
- --
- Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA USA
-
- http://www.users.fast.net/~shenning
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