> The number of lightning strikes to your CAT5 should be roughly > comparable to those to your phone line. How many times has your phone > blown up in the past 3 years? Not at all - (though I have had the external modem get hit by the odd surge or something that has required a hardware reset). As I said, in Auckland it is unlikely to be a problem, but I saw quite a bit of fried gear in Indonesia - people I was working with there, pull phones/modems and computers out of walls during electric storms for good reason. As somebody pointed out, having the cable buried will help rather than stringing it along poles but I would still prefer fibre (esp if somebody else was paying <g>) when running 160m+ cable across paddocks. --gb ------------------------------------------------------------------- To remove yourself from this list, email nzlug-request@linux.net.nz with "unsubscribe" in the body of the message.
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