Thunder Storms

[Neon]

Dont know about you but seems to be thunder storm season down by me at the moment. Two in the last few days and another brewing on my way home from work.

Almost tropical storms as its still stuffy and hot :(

Global warming!! :cool:

[Cabe]

http://www.isleofwightweather.co.uk/live_storm_data.htm

we had a nutter of a storm earlier, if it didnt knock the internet out I would have screen capped.

[Cheez]

Non geeks would have taken a photograph... :p

[Neon]

Love that weather station thing, thats ace :)

[Boffykins]

Seems 2mbit internet doesn't like storms. Didn't used to get these problems when I was on 512

[KingDaveRa]

I've noticed since I've had 1Mb it doesn't like certain conditions. Stands to reason though - there's a lot of copper to pick up noise, and its in the ground so it stands to reason its gunna pick up something.

Anybody see Mythbusters on Discovery last night? They did two myths on lightning - one that says don't use a phone during a storm, and another that says don't use the shower.

It seems that if your phoneline gets hit, yes, are are going to die, assuming you have a wired phone. It would seem plausible that if you're in the shower you can get struck also.

Even a tinfoil hat wouldn't help this time!

[Blood Sport]

i've had lighting down the phone line :S dispite the protection BT equipment provides, it still managed to take out all the phones connected and the modem ,

[her0n]

The storms over the i24 weekend actually took out our net, our neighbours' net and blew our router :( We had to get a new one :o

[Cheez]

You don't surge protect your phone line?

[no friends]

no.


I believe the phone line installed by me will hold :o

3 phase ftw aswell... right down south ere' never had a power cut :p:

[Minidisk]

we get power cuts when the place floods.. but 3 phase wtf ;p

[KingDaveRa]

three-phase - a little pointless in a house surely?

As for surge protection, It'd be hard for me to do as my line splitter is a BT jobbie built into the consumer unit, so it'd be hard to do. Having said that, our phone lines are all submerged right up to the exchange, so its less of an issue.

Hmmm...

[WhiteKnight]

/me strokes his stack of UPSs.

8kva worth :)

[FL1X]

/me also strokes the ups's yes 2 blame brains-lans if power goes down our servers will be up for all of 20 mins but the router switch wireless ect ect (basicly the whole coms rack) will be up for a good few hours im led to believe and with laptop in hand irc will know no down time :)

[no friends]

Originally posted by KingDaveRa
three-phase - a little pointless in a house surely?

As for surge protection, It'd be hard for me to do as my line splitter is a BT jobbie built into the consumer unit, so it'd be hard to do. Having said that, our phone lines are all submerged right up to the exchange, so its less of an issue.

Hmmm...

15 houses make that...

I live on a holiday complex :p:

[TheDon]

Originally posted by no friends
15 houses make that...

I live on a holiday complex :p: Is that a posh way of saying you live in a trailer park?

[no friends]

Originally posted by TheDon
Is that a posh way of saying you live in a trailer park?

go here (http://www.blakes-cottages.co.uk/uce/bk)

and type in any of these codes into the the box which wants codes to be had in it.


B4359
B4360
B4361
B4362
B4363
B4364
B4365
B4366
B4574
B4994
B5875
B6532 \
B6529 / These are the newest builds...

now excuse me, while i go for a swim in my indoor pool ;)

[AcidIce]

My ADSL dies the moment we have slightly hot, cold, windy, wet, stormy, snowy or otherwise "abnormal" weather. It has also been known to go down because of bad chi, bird poo, trees falling through phone lines, act of god... you get the idea... and it *is* only 512/256 - not really worth upgrading if its this dodgy already.

Originally posted by Boffbowsh
Seems 2mbit internet doesn't like storms. Didn't used to get these problems when I was on 512

ooh ooh and i know someone who's house was struck by lightning the other day and her telly "blew up" (so she claims :p)

[KingDaveRa]

Interestingly, we were twice struck by lightning, and I think the first time it only killed the VCR. I think the second time round it took out the TV.

And that was before our aerial was put onto a 12 foot pole...

[AcidIce]

lol did you get some surge protection with that 12' pole? or just the standard sore bottom?

[KingDaveRa]

There's nowt special about this pole. I'm hoping worst case it kills the booster, which is the first earthed (I think!) thing it would hit, so hopefully it'd go to ground on that.

[__OpenGL__]

Our house was struck by lightning in a huge storm in 2003. (known by me as 'that tuesday storm')

Road flooded due to heavy rain etc, took out me then 56k modem (no broadband then) the tv, microwave, toaster, video, and assorted other things :-(

When it thunders my adsl tends to stay up... till we get brownouts which seem to crash my router :-?

[Kaution]

Touch wood, where i live its been fine, just really nice hot weather and thats all :D and that's coming from someone living up @ North West in Cheshire.

[AcidIce]

THERES ANOTHER ONE RIGHT NOW!

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[philbert_mcpleb]

make sure you unplug you pc's and modems during large storms. if you do you will make me very happy by keeping my work load down. also your average surge protector will not protect against a lighning strike, you wouldn't beleive teh number of people i have spoken to who say that it couldn't have been lighning because they had a surge protector, but when i look at the machine guess what caused teh damage.

[AcidIce]

your workload? do you work for an insurance company? tbh i cba to unplug during a storm, I could do with a new PC and I have an up to date backup on my server thats connected wirelessly and running of a UPS - its about as safe as it's getting I imagine.

[AcidIce]

btw i just got powercutted lol, though the storm had actually mostly blown over and even if I was the unplugging type, i'd have plugged back in :(

[Grimmeehh]

wee big storm

i love it me.. we had one here last week was awesome

[AcidIce]

yeah storms are great fun :)
they always remind me of my nanny when i was like 5 hiding under the kitchen table though lol :p

[philbert_mcpleb]

Originally posted by AcidIce
your workload? do you work for an insurance company?

i work for the company they get it to do the repairs.

a lot of power surges can be repaired fairly easily, a drink spilt on a computer can fry the insides quite nicley. you wouldn't beleive some of the things i've seen spilt on pc's