> Phone lines aren't grounded. > > This is a very good summary of the issues and a few partial solutions: > http://www.epanorama.net/documents/surge/telesurge.html
The lightning/thunder I'm talking about are not close-by. Most of the time they are quite far (~5-10 seconds between lightning and thunder). Said another way, _every_time_ there is a small thunder storm that passes through I-270/495 area, my DSL modem resets multiple times. I was just wondering (a) if this is normal operation, ie: do others see this often and (b) do surge protectors (electrical and phone combo surge protectors) help with this? I _always_ have several SSH sessions open to remote machines, so perhaps I notice this more often than others because I see that the ssh sessions have died. Those who do streaming audio/video a lot would see these disconnects too. (And, that's what annoyed me the most the other day. I woke up at 3am to watch a cricket match from halfway around the world and the silly modem kept resetting. Always a "last mile" problem. Aargh!) I'm wondering if the (unshielded) 40ft of cat-5 cable outside my house is somehow amplifying the problem. I guess, I should put tin foil around the cable. <grin> > Note that none of the protectors are foolproof, if a common mode > surge of some magnitude occurs it can still fry any device connected > to the phone line. Your best bet is to unplug the phone line if you > hear thunder. Seriously, how many people unplug their phone line _every_time_ they hear thunder? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
