Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU!MQUINN%UTCVM From: MQUINN%UTCVM@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Modem Woes/Odyssey...The Compleat Apventure Message-ID: <9007262344.AA10847@apple.com> Date: 26 Jul 90 23:31:16 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 19 Surge suppressors won't protect against lightning.They only protect against Random power suror spikes caused by something the power company has done. Lightning is just too strong to be blocked by littlechunks of plastic and metal from Radio Shack (or any other place, for that matter). The only REAL protection from lightning is to unplug your equipment (including phone lines) when you know an electrical storm is coming. Or if you want to be extra careful, you could unplug your stuff everytime your finished using it. A lightning rod will help (very litt. I live at a place where lightning likes to poke around alot, this week I just lost my VCR! for the FOURTH time in the past decade! We've also lost several burglar alarm systems, one satalite dish, several pieces of satalite equipment and a big screen T.V. We even have we have all of our expensive equipment running through TWO ssurge suppressor and we even have lightning rods outside our house! but lightning will strike wherever it likes. Don't believe that old saying that lightning never strikes the same place twice! :) Buying surge suppressors certainlycan't hurt, but the best thing to do is to unplug everything during a storm (including the antanae connection or cable connection on your VCR or TV. That's how we lost our big screen.