On Monday 08 December 2003 10:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I've no experience of a printer being fried, on any of the
> systems that I have been involved with. �Modems, however, are a
> different story. �Last year there was a rather violent storm.
> �Most of my friends and family lost their modems. �Apparently
> just having them plugged in to the telephone line can put them
> at risk. �As well as having the UPS I have a surge-protect
> strip that protects the telephone line as well. �My modem was
> unscathed. �True, the surge strip had to be replaced soon after
> - but that's very cheap and easy compared with replacing
> anything else. �So - the UPS protects the modem from problems
> with power supply, and the strip protects it from problems down
> the telephone line.
>
> Anne
I have just the computer, speaker system and the monitor
plugged into my UPS. The phone, answering machine, and my aDSL
'modem' are plugged into an APC surge protector. Which also has
factility to protect the phone line. This worked fine when I had
an anolog phone line and used dialup. It also works with my
digital aDSL line, BUT, it severly puts a hit on thruput. With
the DSL line going thru the surge protector, I get 130 to
140KB/s. With the DSL run straight to the 'modem', I get 150 to
170 KB/s. (1.5Mbit aDSL) I've opted to risk the 'modem' ;)
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