-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Looking surge protector
- From: Foxhillers@xxxxxxx
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 23:01:07 EDT
In a message dated 9/7/03 9:46:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
christrueman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> nope robert..I am on dialup .......................unfortuntately for a
> while longer...(:..i unplug the computer because of storms..its still
> rcommended even with a surge protector (: as for sat service.. wish I could
> afford..thats dearer for me than broadband(: lol! (and as I live in the
> remote wilderness so far as the UK telephone exchange is concerned..) we are
> advised in case of storms to unplug computers from the modem..in fact my
> step-nephew's modem was fried during a storm..whether he had a surge
> protector i am not sure..but i have heard even with one..you are still best
> unplugging the computer from the moden..?
>
That's why a UPS is preferred to a surge protector!
mjh
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