"One of them actually blew up and plastic shrapnel hit me in the head."

I think that was actually the origin story for the first 'winner' of "Who Wants 
to be a Superhero".





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From: Doug Brown <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 2:45:07 PM
Subject: [The Unique Geek] lightning protector for DSL line?

Living out here at the end of the power and phone lines can get expensive 
during 
thunderstorm season. Friday night a storm rolled through and we went through 
our 
usual routine of unplugging all the pc's. We've lost 3 computers in the last 4 
years to lightning and around 5 dsl filters have been fried outside of that. 
One 
of them actually blew up and plastic shrapnel hit me in the head.

This time I forgot to unplug the dsl line. It cost me a dsl filter, a dsl 
modem, 
a wireless router, the power supply for the router and the surge protector. I 
think it came in from the dsl line which has been true of most of the strikes 
in 
recent years. Do any of you tech geeks know of lightning protection I can put 
on 
my dsl line?
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        Doug Brown/ KC4RSL


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