[ale] just a note about Atlantic Nexus

[Ron Frazier]

Glad you're up and running. I had a similar event a couple of years ago. 
Surge suppressors, which I have everywhere, just cannot absorb the 
quantity of energy a close by lightning bolt will pump into the earth. 
Over the last 11 years, I've lost 2 garage door openers, an audio 
amplifier, an intercom, multiple telephones, a kvm, and a hard drive 
enclosure to lightning, at least that's my theory. I have a nice little 
bag of scrap parts I just never got around to recycling. It's great that 
your ISP got you back up and running so quickly. I said I hated these 
storms last night. My wife said "I thought you loved GA weather." I 
said, no, I just hate it less than earthquakes out west, even more 
tornadoes in the midwest, and multiple feet of snow up north. When the 
GA weather is good, I love it, but I really hate these storms. We have 
the dubious honor of having the 2nd most lightning strikes in the 
country. I think FL is number 1.

Sincerely,

Ron

On 03/01/2011 07:14 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> well, we got hit by a nice BIG storm last night. I was watching TV (
> plugged into an UPS) and I heard a very LOUD BOOM!!!! I mean NEARBY&
> BIG. when the picture finally garbled on my TV from DirecTV lack of
> signal, I went to the PC to look up wsb weather. nada, no DSL. PC is
> behind APC UPS, and dialtone goes through APC UPS. Later Milt from atnex
> said NOT to put the dialtone through the APC it degrades the signal..
> anyway, I figured it was the storm hit the main box&  forgot about it.
> about 7:45pm ( right at the END of a THRILLER movie right before the bad
> guy gets it!!) Milt from Atlantic Nexus calls ME to ask about my DSL. He
> was getting no signal.. We played with it for a few, then he had me plug
> in my OLD modem&  it synced up.. so my ADSL modem got fried. It is
> plugged into an APC UPS&  the dialtone went through it too. We got me up
> &  going with the old modem&  he is shipping me a replacement ADSL modem
> today. He even remembered that my Linksys router hung off the ADLS modem
> for wireless was running DD-WRT !
> THIS is why I got business-class service&  got it from Atlantic Nexus (
> he calls it net2atlanta.com, the business side).
>
> I just wanted to pass along a feel-good story after a bad night..
> and we got 0.86 inches of rain in about an hour..
> YMMV
>
>    

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