nowwhatnapster
Limp Gawd
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Been working full time IT for about a year now and got to see first hand the devastation a lightning strike can have. Big storm rolled through the area struck near a building 3 clients of ours share. Thought I'd share the results.
Modems, routers and switches were on battery backups. Most of the battery backups are working fine surprisingly. It leads me to believe the surge traversed through the Cable> modems > routers > switches > NICs.
Any thoughts on prevention? I find inline surge protectors between stuff like the xerox and the switch generally cause more problems than they fix.
- 1(maybe more, wasn't keeping tabs on the ISP tech's, but there were aplenty) dead cable modem (replaced by ISP)
- 3 dead switches, 8, 16, and 24 port. (replaced all)
- 1 dead router, lights up but cant hit web interface (replaced)
- 1 dead external interface on router, reprogramed to use different interface (to be replaced)
- 5 dead NIC's
- 3-workstations (installed add-in NIC's)
- 1-laptop on a docking station (set to wifi only)
- 1(maybe 2)-printers (set to wifi only)
- 1 corrupt xerox copier (printer tech wiped HDD and reloaded)
- 1 dead workstaion (no post, diagnostic lights indicate memory failure)
- 1 dead battery backup
- 1 untested router, proactively upgraded
Modems, routers and switches were on battery backups. Most of the battery backups are working fine surprisingly. It leads me to believe the surge traversed through the Cable> modems > routers > switches > NICs.
Any thoughts on prevention? I find inline surge protectors between stuff like the xerox and the switch generally cause more problems than they fix.