Electrical surges & antennas, both regulated by magic... Cheers Beaker
On May 12, 2007, at 2:18 PM, graywolf wrote: > Well, I may have gotten a new set of wrenches for my troubles with the > truck, but with a sudden thunderstorm yesterday Old Murph got even. > > I was setting here at the keyboard, reading the Pentax Discussion > Mailing List when there was a sudden KAAA_BOOM! I hit my head on the > ceiling and the computer died for a moment. Then came back up. "Wow, I > am lucky that didn't kill the computer", I muttered. "But wait no > Internet. Must have knocked out the cable. No the TV works. Let's try > the laptop. Got a wireless connection. Must be the network card, I > will > get one tomorrow." > > I picked up a NIC today and put it in. Still no connection. "The > wireless works so the modem and router must be OK", I thought. > "I'll try > another cable. Nope, that didn't help. Let's hook the laptop up via > cable. Darn that don't work either. How the heck can it blow the wired > hub and not knock out the wireless? Let's hook up directly to the > modem. > Works! Damn, now I am going to have to get another wireless router > too." > > How did that happen? It had to come through two surge protectors, or > through the cable modem to get to the hub and NIC. > > I am not going to say the obvious, and I don't want any of you to > either. I am afraid Old Murph will hear, > > -graywolf > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
