Protecting 1Gb Ethernet From Lightning Strikes

Wed Aug 14 17:40:36 UTC 2019

On Wed, 14 Aug 2019, Chris Knipe wrote:

> Think surge protectors will protect against strikes that is far away, and
> the residual surge it creates.
>
> A direct strike?  Don't think there's anything that will really protect
> against that.

https://imgur.com/a/dzTVw5a has been posted lately here in a swedish 
fiber-related facebook group.

So even though you might have fiber coming in, remember that both the 
power grid and copper network cables are conductors and can make the 
lightning strike jump between devices. So the OP of this thread is right 
in wanting to protect both the network cables and power cables.

PS. I don't have more details about this specific case.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se