How well is your house grounded? We had lightening strike near by in June. It did in my oven, dryer, ceiling fan controller, a couple of outlet strips and three of my neighbors dvd players.
My house which is about sixty years old used the water line coming into the house as the ground. That is quite inadequate according to my electrician. We added a new ground rod and he re doubled the ground connections on the circuit panel. I would at minimum try grounding the phone line before it goes into the dsl modem if you have access to it. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Michael Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I have the DSL service through Verizon. Every time there is lightning in > the area, the DSL connection resets. The modem then takes about a minute > or > so to re-establish the DSL connection and all is happy ... (until the next > lightning during the dark and stormy night, that is.) > > Has anyone else experienced this with their DSL line? Any educated guesses > as to if the problem is on my side of the box (NID, I believe it is called) > or the phone company side? The Phone Co. side is not all that old since > verizon re-did the copper wiring in the area about 5-6 years ago. My side > has a cat-5 cable running on the outside of the house for a fair bit (30-40 > feet) before entering the house. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
