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.

-mb

On 06/14/2015 12:41 AM, Michael Havens wrote:

Yeah.... I was on my computer during a thunder 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: http://thesimplefromthesimple.blogspot.com/2015/06/toast.html

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