DukenukemX
08-03-2002, 01:27 PM
Ok well on friday night lighting hit my cable line at my house. Yeah thats right I'm home on friday night. :tongue:
So anyway it hit the cable line and fried my Cable modem. Then it fried the Linksys router. Ohh and then fried the Nic cards in all my PC's. :cry:
The two main PC's have there Nic's fried and the Nic on the laptop is fried. :(
I got the cable modem replaced free from OptOnline and I still had the box for my router so those were replaced for free. :mischief:
The PC's seem to be find so I just went to my local store and got two Nic cards.
Only problem is now my Laptop has a burnt Nic card and it needs to be replaced. Since it's a IBM laptop I know it's going to cost me a arm and a leg to replace that. :meanie:
I have a surge protector hooked up to my PC and all it's stuff. Even the phone line is protected. So far my home network is running fine except the Laptop and didn't cost me too much yet. I also got another surge protector that protects the cable line as well. Lucky for me I use satilite for the TV's in my house.
The leason to be learned from this is cover you ass. I just converted from DSL to Cable modem a few weeks ago and didn't think a surge of power would come thru the line. Now I got to deal with my cable provider to see who's paying for the damage's. :mad:
Remember cover you ass otherwise you could end up like me. :whap:
So anyway it hit the cable line and fried my Cable modem. Then it fried the Linksys router. Ohh and then fried the Nic cards in all my PC's. :cry:
The two main PC's have there Nic's fried and the Nic on the laptop is fried. :(
I got the cable modem replaced free from OptOnline and I still had the box for my router so those were replaced for free. :mischief:
The PC's seem to be find so I just went to my local store and got two Nic cards.
Only problem is now my Laptop has a burnt Nic card and it needs to be replaced. Since it's a IBM laptop I know it's going to cost me a arm and a leg to replace that. :meanie:
I have a surge protector hooked up to my PC and all it's stuff. Even the phone line is protected. So far my home network is running fine except the Laptop and didn't cost me too much yet. I also got another surge protector that protects the cable line as well. Lucky for me I use satilite for the TV's in my house.
The leason to be learned from this is cover you ass. I just converted from DSL to Cable modem a few weeks ago and didn't think a surge of power would come thru the line. Now I got to deal with my cable provider to see who's paying for the damage's. :mad:
Remember cover you ass otherwise you could end up like me. :whap: