Voyager 105 Usb Adsl Modem

Electrical storms and lightning strikes are a fact of life in some regions. Unfortunately, lightning can strike overhead fed phone wires which are common in rural areas. The phone company usually put gas-discharge tubes into the network termination equipment, but a direct strike on the phone line will often still send a damaging surge through the ADSL modem.

With luck it will be just the modem that is damaged, but the surge can pass to the home network via Ethernet cables, damaging network cards or PC motherboards, leading to potential loss of data.