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- From: Marshall Richards <mcr@smile.mv.com>
- Subject: Re: Lightening protection
- Message-ID: <315D3A5D.6534@smile.mv.com>
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- Organization: MV Communications, Inc.
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 13:42:53 GMT
- References: <MODEMS-L%96032606062588@VM.ITS.RPI.EDU> <315ade80.9883973@news.superlink.net>
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- Tom Snyder wrote:
- >
- > Turgut Kalfaoglu <TURGUT%TREARN.BITNET@VM.ITS.RPI.EDU> wrote:
- >
- > >Now that I bought expensive modems for my BBS, I want to make sure nothing
- > >happens to them :) How can one protect a couple of USR Courrier's
- > >"relatively cheaply" ? I need some sort of phone line surge suppressors
- > >I guess; that would enable me to sleep thru stormy nights..
- >
- > Oh, I was in your shoes for many years. The truth is that it will be
- > impossible for you to sleep through a stormy night. The best answer is
- > to pull all the phone and power plugs from your BBS and sit and wait for
- > the storm to pass before you plug everything back in again.
- >
- > -----------------------------------------------------------
- > Tom Snyder
- > (No, not the television talkshow host)
- > tsnyder@eclipse.net tommy@superlink.net
- > -- Every thought's a possibility --
- > -----------------------------------------------------------
-
- I strongly agree with you on the unpluging. It is the only way to
- absolutely protect your modem and pc from lightening surges or strikes.
- I lost a motherboard a few years back and know of one person that lost
- their modem and pc as a surge running in on the phone line.
-
- "Don't keep plugged"
- Marshall
-