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Re: Cable protection



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If your cable comes in overhead, check the cable line for an existing connection
to the house ground - I believe it's required by National Electrical Code.

Earl

>I got all the latest surge protectors for my computer, monitor, printer,
>data feed box and modem. But the cable wire runs separately and goes into
>the data feed box then to my serial port. If the cable company sends out a
>burst of voltage to boost their transmission or lighting hits ten miles
>away but sends a surge down the cable what will protect my computer from
>that surge of voltage going into my serial port. Any ideas on something
>that's sold for this kind of protection or is that in the data box already.
>Seems to me this would be a large hole missing in my arsenal of protecting
>my data and computer from surge corruption.
>
>Robert