[plug] wanted: 56k modem

[Kai Jones]

Don't need mythbusters to figure that out, lightning has just arked from
$k's above the ground, another few metres and a few loops of wire isn't
going to get in it's way.

The loop method is only effectively used to supress noise. 

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf Of Jason Posavec
Sent: Wednesday, 14 June 2006 8:39 AM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] wanted: 56k modem

Has anyone tried using the old trick of tying 3 small loops in the phone

cable and has seen if that works against lightning strikes?

Or is that one for Mythbusters?

Jason



Jonathan Young wrote:
> And since we've moved on to 'the case against internal modems', add to
> that lightning strikes.
>
> I have seen first hand the evidence of damage done when a lightning
> strike causes a surge to come down the phone line.