...what some people will do to get their broadband - but I understand it. I wasn't here at the school 3 days before I was hanging out a 3rd story window running CAT 5 to my apartment.
On another note, I wonder what you do to ground this sort of thing. I mean, we can get some pretty strong lightning here. How do you keep lightning from destroying your computer/wireless equipment in this case?
Cat 5 usually handles surges fairly well... If you do have a problem it usually blows the port that you are connected to on each end but not the actual unit... This is where cheap 24 port hubs come in;P
On another note, I wonder what you do to ground this sort of thing. I mean, we can get some pretty strong lightning here. How do you keep lightning from destroying your computer/wireless equipment in this case?
I assume you'd do the same thing you'd do in any other case of "tall stuff" (like a TV antenna) -- put a lightning rod [wikipedia.org] on the tower that extends well above the tower's height, and run the insulated ground cable down to the ground.
How do you keep lightning from destroying your computer/wireless equipment in this case?
you have two choices. You can pray to several gods or sacrifice livestock on a regular basis. Both of those are the most effective at protecting from lightning strikes.
there is nothing technological you can do to protect against a direct lightning strike except for one thing.... Insurance.
I insure everything in my home including my ham radio gear and then hope for a strike every thunderstorm. I call thunderstorms my
My well's transformer pole got hit last year -- that's about 150 feet from my house. Zapped both transformers, their fuses, two 100A fuses in my breaker box, and my well's booster pump. Didn't affect anything in my house, tho.
Even so, I had to replace a $700 pump (with a $500 deductable:(
Parallel lines never meet, unless you bend one or both of them.
It is amazing... (Score:2)
On another note, I wonder what you do to ground this sort of thing. I mean, we can get some pretty strong lightning here. How do you keep lightning from destroying your computer/wireless equipment in this case?
Re:It is amazing... (Score:2)
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I assume you'd do the same thing you'd do in any other case of "tall stuff" (like a TV antenna) -- put a lightning rod [wikipedia.org] on the tower that extends well above the tower's height, and run the insulated ground cable down to the ground.
Re:It is amazing... (Score:2)
you have two choices. You can pray to several gods or sacrifice livestock on a regular basis. Both of those are the most effective at protecting from lightning strikes.
there is nothing technological you can do to protect against a direct lightning strike except for one thing.... Insurance.
I insure everything in my home including my ham radio gear and then hope for a strike every thunderstorm. I call thunderstorms my
Re:It is amazing... (Score:2)
Even so, I had to replace a $700 pump (with a $500 deductable