[Nolug] Consumer-grade network stuff extra-sensitive to lightning?

Hi,

Yesterday morning's storm zapped my 5-port router, and I'm
wondering why. (In fact, this is my 3rd 5-port switch/hub,
and 3rd 16-port switch. :()

The 5-port switch's wall-wart is/was plugged into a UPS,
just like my cable modem, firewall, 16-port switch, 2 PCs,
etc. (No, they aren't all plugged into the same UPS,
but I did replace the old one and add a 3rd UPS)

The cable modem's input coax comes straight from the wall,
and I could understand if it got zapped, but it still works
fine.

A NIC on the other side of the house seems to have died,
too. The spike that killed it, apparently went down the
coax, thru the cable modem, killed the 5-port switch, thru
the Linux firewall, thru a 16-port switch, and to the box
with the now-dead NIC in it. That box has been plugged
into it's own UPS for a while, and, otherwise, still works.

Very strange that nothing else died.

-- 
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
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