AA>>> What exactly was wrong with your Netcomm M11F?  I ran

 AA>>> one for 2 years 24 hours a day on a very busy BBS...

 AA>>> never had one bit of trouble.



 BV>> It seems to me that I blew it up so to speak from leaving it plugged

 BV>> have problems with certain equipment when others do not.

 BV> Never said it was the modems fault at all, see above.



 AA>> It's hardly the modem's fault if there is a power 

 AA>> surge!  It's the users fault for not adequately 

 AA>> protecting the modem by having surge protectors on both 

 AA>> the power and phone lines.



A lot of good surge protectors do ....NOT

The common ones have a triggering voltage of 270Vac, so in my oppinion

the extra 30Volts has already stuffed your equipment, before the

Varistor is triggered.



They are a gimick, just like security screens on the opening parts of

your house windows. If anyone wants to get in these days, they just

smash the glass beside the security screen.

If lightning strikes at your modem through the power or phone lines,

do you think that the super spark that just jumped 10 miles through

the sky is going to be stopped by a spark arrestor with a gap of a few

microns or a wafer of composite material in a varistor.

                                                       

 BV> oh well its not as if all this computer stuff is a life and death issue

 BV> anyway.

"Computer stuff" IS a life or death issue...look at least in The Northern

Territory at the moment.



Russell

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