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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Wanted: Advise on a modem for my PC.
Message-ID: <119@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 28 Oct 90 16:19:33 GMT
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bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion) writes:

>A nice lighting hit anywhere in a mile or so can just zip down the phone
>line, into the modem, onto the bus, and from then on anywhere it wants.

>In Lightning World, that entertainment center that completely surrounds
>Disney World, FL, I have lost 3 modems to lightning.  All external.  The
>died fighting to save the cpu.

	Were any of these modems "protected"? A number of power conditioners
(like my C/A Power Director) provide isolation for RJ11 devices as well as
those running off the AC. I would venture that this provides at least as
much protection (though feeding an internal modem) for my CPU as an external
modem.

	Experience has taught that all computer equipment of any value
should have *some* protection against line irregularities, though there's
*no* protection against *all* such irregularities.