[NCSA-discuss] lightning protection on ethernet

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

Over the years I've lost 2 monitors, a serial port on a Mac 
toaster, and a port on a switch to lightning, all at home.
It would seem that lightning needs to be handled with some 
sort of protection.

However all the large installations I've worked at (1000 
people over many buildings) don't seem to have lightning 
protectors on the ethernet and don't suffer from it.

I'm about to wifi a building which will involve long 
(100-200') runs of ethernet and was wondering whether I 
should put lightning protectors on the ethernet lines. 
They're about $100 each and you'll need one at each end of 
the ethernet cable. The lightning protectors are worth more 
than the waps. However down time is more expensive that both 
of these.

Anyone have anything to say about lightning protectors on 
ethernet?

Thanks Joe

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