Last week when I was travelling, my home network was struck by thunder lighting which below all my ethernet connected devices, which includes Alix/pfsense router, Airtel ADSL modem, 2x 8p switches, Home security cloud camera, Gigabyte motherboard and electrical monitoring devices. None of the devices power circuit or adapter got effected, as mostly all of them were connected to a UPS. For example, the PC's ethernet port no longer works and win 8 lost its activation, do not know how it lost the activation, besides that it stills boot & works fine. Other devices does power up but either malfunctions or do not respond. Never happened before with only Airtel ADSL connection, I guess the culprit was Alliance connection which is basically a cat5 cables dangling outside aerially. Upon changing the router I found the airtel link still working but the Alliance was down, they took 3 days to repair the line. Thus in my opinion their last mile connectivity is very unsecured and risky.
I've already bought TP-Link TL-R470T+ load balancing router, and TPlink AP, switches etc. I'm looking forward to ground & secure both my wan connections, maybe using a RJ45/RJ11 signal lighting arrestor. However I was unable to find one with Indian online stores. Has anyone used any such devices to ground the connections ?
I've already bought TP-Link TL-R470T+ load balancing router, and TPlink AP, switches etc. I'm looking forward to ground & secure both my wan connections, maybe using a RJ45/RJ11 signal lighting arrestor. However I was unable to find one with Indian online stores. Has anyone used any such devices to ground the connections ?
