Re:Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017)
by dmix on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @04:46PM
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What kind of building do you live in where this occurred? An older house?
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Re:Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017)
by js2 on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @06:26PM
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Nope, two story home w/basement built in 2004. It’s at the high point in the neighborhood. I’ve had the grounding rod checked. I think I’ve just been really unlucky. I’ve lost networking gear two or three times (which I believe was actually via the cable modem) and the most recent strike 2 years ago took out circuit boards in an A/C unit, a separate air handler/furnace, one of my garage door openers, and an arc-fault circuit breaker in one of my panel. That last strike was the first time I had more than a few hundred dollars of damage and enough to claim against my home owners policy.
This is since 2004. And we get a lot of lightning storms here in the summer. I grew up in S Florida and I don't recall getting lightning storms as frequently or as violently as here.