Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: mit-amt!geek%mit-amt.media.mit.edu@eecs.nwu.edu (Chris Schmandt) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Phone line surge protection Message-ID: Date: 18 Jul 89 03:17:04 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Chris Schmandt Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA Lines: 12 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 242, message 5 of 10 Well, as long as we're on the topic of surge protection and lightening arresters... Several postings have painted a pretty bleak picture on the probability of my gear surviving a strike on the phone line, which is claimed to be not that uncommon an event. So, can anyone suggest a reasonable approach to protection (i.e., a product?) and any evidence that it will work? With surge protectors on my power lines, I now feel a bit like Ben Franklin dangling those phone wires out of my house during our summer thunderstorm season. chris