<div dir="ltr">I just realized something. The surge had to jump two devices to get to my computer! (modem/router connected to a router (using as switch) connected to the computer).</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Poor grounding and circuit isolation.
Probably more common than not with the race to make
cheaper/self-destructing devices so they can sell you another.<br>
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On 06/14/2015 12:41 AM, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
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storm. Bad boy! I fried my NIC. Why I am telling you this is the
surge went through the modem and fried my NIC. How did it bypass
the modem? (for more info: <a href="http://thesimplefromthesimple.blogspot.com/2015/06/toast.html" target="_blank">http://thesimplefromthesimple.blogspot.com/2015/06/toast.html<br clear="all">
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