[SWLUG] Linux mobile broadband advice please

[Neil Greenwood]

On 01.08.11 21:18, Colin Law wrote:
> On 1 August 2011 21:04, Neil Greenwood <neil.greenwood.lug at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Running a cable is a bad idea if there's a thunderstorm! So don't do it
>> on a long-term basis.
> 
> I am not necessarily suggesting you are wrong, but do you have any
> references that corroborate this?  It is not nearly as long as the
> telephone wire after all.
> 

Telephone hardware at each end of the lines are designed to cope with
any current generated in the wires. BTW, that's why the emergency number
isn't 111, which would have been quicker to dial - noise on the line
frequently used to generate spurious '1' dialling pulses!

http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/cablingcat5/f/cat5outdoors.htm?rd=1

Network hardware really needs surge protectors at each end of an outdoor
cable to protect it from any surges.


Cofion,
Neil.