We had a lightning incident here recently and the damage was fortunately limited to a pair of DSL/Wireless routers connected to my DSL lines and the Ethernet port of an Xbox360.
In the case of the wireless routers in at least one case the telephone line interface was damaged as well as the power adaptor. It seems the issue in this case was most likely not a high voltage between the live and neutral wires of the mains but between the mains wires as a pair and earth (ground). In that case the path to earth is through the DSL router to the phone line which has one leg grounded and the damaged parts reflect this. In the case of a cable line the same route is possible particularly if the screen of the coax cable is grounded. In this case grounding at the customers premises probably acts more to protect the cable company's equipment and that of neighbouring customers that it does to protect your equipment. -- Fozzy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fozzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8592 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88797 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
