[brucku]

damn! my 5160 no longer can connect to my router!! i have no connected light on that port on my router.



jeez this sucks big time, my home theatre receiver was also affected by tthe lightning bolt that hit some kind of power box near my street



is there any recourse? can I open up my 5160 and replace anything to fix this?

 

[brucku]

Maybe it was port #1 that got blown out on my router.... phew tried another port and it lookis like connectivity resumed

 

[Slack]

been there, done that.


ain't it great, routers are so sheap nowadays. they are the first to go.

 

[rm -rf *.*]

you're lucky - everything on the 5k series is soldered to the mainboard...


(the 4k series had a 1/3-height ethernet card plugged into a pci slot on the board)

 

[ShaneV]

Your lucky, I had lightning hit my house and do 30K in damage.

On the replay side it took out :

My router, my switch, one 5040, the network card on my other 5040, and my PC running dvarchive, along with a long list of other problems.

 

[clskier]

So what kind of precautions, if any, would you take in hindsight to prevent this. I'm in the process of building a house, and will be doing all the low voltage wireing myself. No exotic solutions please, the cost of construction is already killing me.

 

[ShaneV]

From my research nothing would have prevented the bulk of the damage. Most of the damage was structural (23K) My house was directly hit, it actually blew a 2 ft whole in our ceramic tile shower. It went into my rebar in my concrete skab and blew 2 holes in the slab itself.


The computer it hit was on a UPS, but didnt stop it at all.


A network surge protector MAY have saved my 2 replays, but no way of knowing for sure.


All 4 of my TV's were ruined, but they came on, the tubes were messed up because of the magnetic properties of the bolt traveling through the electrical wires.

 

[rm -rf *.*]

Quote:

Originally posted by clskier So what kind of precautions, if any, would you take in hindsight to prevent this. I'm in the process of building a house, and will be doing all the low voltage wireing myself. No exotic solutions please, the cost of construction is already killing me.

Not to be a smart---, but a good insurance policy is your best (and cheapest) bet.

Seriously, I'm in the land of Fruits and Nuts (California) and have spent hundreds of thousands on isolating server rooms for the offhand chance that one of my servers might actually get hit by a freak lightning bolt BEFORE it slides into the ocean the next time the San Andreas fault gets cranky...

 

[ShaneV]

Yep, I agree, Ill never complain about my high insurance cost again. It will take a while for them to break even on me now