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From: jim@crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Surge Supressor Recommendations Wanted
Message-ID: <1991Apr03.144355.13660@crom2.uucp>
Date: 3 Apr 91 14:43:55 GMT
References: <3895.27f8cab9@hayes.uucp>
Organization: Abbey Technologies - Athens GA
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tnixon@hayes.uucp writes:

> Does anyone have a particular brand of surge supressor that they 
> swear by and would recommend I look at?  How about one you swear AT 
> and wouldn't recommend to your worst enemy, that I should avoid? 
> Any thoughts you might have on the subject would be most
> appreciated.  Please REPLY to me via email; I'll summarize and post
> the result to the group if requested.  Thanks very much! 

     Do you mean powerline surge suppressor or modem line surge suppressor?
I assume you mean the latter since this is the modem newsgroup; if so,
please do summarise; it's a very interesting question and one that the maga-
zines ignore -- but they shouldn't, because a-wire-is-a-wire-is-a-wire and
you could get a lightning zap through your phone line just as easily as
through the 110vAC socket.  I *don't* know of many brands in this area.
Radio Shack sells one, and I use it, but I'm not qualified to tell how
good it is just by looking inside it.  


     A question about another hang-on-the-phone-line accessory:  does anyone
know of an A/B switch for phone lines?  My phone cable connector is WAY down
behind my workbench, I can just barely reach it and can't see it, but I need
to swap modem cables a couple of times a week when crom2 goes down or goes
single-user for maintenance and I want my old 286 running Coherent to answer
the phone for a while.  That sure would be easier to accomplish if I could just
flip a switch to send callers to the other box.  I know such a thing wouldn't
be hard to make but due to time pressures I'd rather just purchase one --
if anybody sells one, that it.

     Thanks very much for anyone's bright ideas on either question!

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