Lightning strikes twice.

[dr_bob]

A couple of weeks ago, we had a fun thunder storm (although not as good as the one on Monday). At pretty much the same time, our

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[bateleur]

a power surge from a (distant) lightning strike managed to wreck the ethernet ports (or electronics feeding them) of both my printer and the router

Not impossible. Pooter equipment is quite sensitive to surges and power drops. The ideal way to protect it is to use some kind of UPS, but I've seen multi-way boards and the like which claim to have "surge protectors" built in. Don't know whether they really work...

[leathellin]

Or buy a surge protected power strip... (probably a bit cheaper :-)

Says the person in a country which still hasn't sorted out a stable electricity supply in it's capital city. Mutter.

[bateleur]

power strip

That being a synonym for multi-way board I suspect it's not much cheaper! ;-)

[leathellin]

multi-way board

A what with the what? Now I understand of course but we don't know such technical terms in this country... ;-)