On Thursday 29 June 2006 08:28 pm, Rony wrote:
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 10:34:31AM +0530, jtd wrote:
wonder which would be safer. Cable TV has tens of (almost) parallel connections with cable length of 25 to fifty meters. Each TV would have a surge arrestor - the small neon lamp in the antenna lead. Otoh the triband modem will have a proper gas discharge lightining suppressor - but only one per circuit with much longer cable.
The main danger is from the terraces that are directly exposed to the sky. So cable gets hit easily. Actually the ethernet cards must be getting knocked off due to the high static levels.
Not with humidity levels of 85%. static would dissipate immediately. Is humidity causing the failure?. Or is it voltage leaks from CATV equipment.