In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

In my opinion, I'd not be putting the line through the surge protection at all.

Hmmm. A debatable point.

In a summer thunderstorm a couple of years ago, lighting struck a nearby house, taking out loads of nearby routers with it.

I have two lines here and at the time I had two Draytek 2600VG routers on one each - but only one line had a surge protector.

Anybody want a mostly dead 2600VG - no VoIP, no Wireless (and it runs very hot)

In reply to a post by Sandgrounder:

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

In my opinion, I'd not be putting the line through the surge protection at all.

Hmmm. A debatable point.

In a summer thunderstorm a couple of years ago, lighting struck a nearby house, taking out loads of nearby routers with it.

I have two lines here and at the time I had two Draytek 2600VG routers on one each - but only one line had a surge protector.

Anybody want a mostly dead 2600VG - no VoIP, no Wireless (and it runs very hot)

Glad someone else agrees with me ~ the event I reported about, one of our neighbours was on the phone at the time and he had a minor injury as a result of the phone 'going west' in his hand. I would not willingly leave sensitive equipment unprotected even though the chances of such "major" size be very rare but all it takes to destroy the kit and valuable data is that one event!

Oh, our pre NTE5 socket showed signs of fry/burn damage and the surge protector worked because it no longer had one of the "I am working OK" lights aglow Cheaper to get another protector than big £££'s for the router & PC etc!