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Re: Lightning suppression



James

If these people can't help, no one can.

www.furse.co.uk

HTH

Regards

Neil

James Fidell wrote:
>
> Our power and phone lines run largely overground and often over the
tops
> of hills, so they're fairly susceptible to lightning strikes. This has
> caused me a problem because every time the phone line is hit by
> lightning the switch port to which my ADSL router is connected gets
> killed. My 24-port switch is now down to 19 ports :(
>
> I've tried putting Belkin Surgemasters on the phone lines without any
> apparent improvement, though this weekend I'll be moving them as close
> to the master sockets as possible and recabling some of the phone
> connections from there.
>
> Any other hints for mitigating the impact of lightning strikes?
>
> James
>
>




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