Nick Daniels wrote:
On Thursday 14 June 2007 23:45, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 19:14 +0100, Nick Daniels wrote:
Hi I keep loosing my broadband connection during thunderstorms, I am sure this never happened in the previous years. I usually loose it about an hour before the storm appears here, and then for the duration of the storm.
I think a lot of it is dependant on what portion of your lines are on overhead cables, as naturally these are more susceptible to induced voltage spikes from nearby strikes and/or seem to be more prone to connection problems at the termination points.
It could also be Exchange based though, I have heard rumours before that some smaller exchanges don't have "all" the equipment on redundant supplies..perhaps in your case this includes the DSLAM :-)
Hi Wayne I think nearly all three miles to exchange is overhead based. I have noticed I am cut off before the storm if the storm comes from the direction of the exchange. I also, as a radio ham, am often cut off if I transmit on the 3.5MHz to 3.8MHz band, apparently this is not uncommon. I was reading in the RSGB publication last night that "some high power operators are destroying the ADSL cards in the exchange" when tranmitting on this band. (High power = 400w max.) I do have two 40 foot ham radio masts in the garden but these are fitted with static discharge.
Kind Regards - Nick Daniels
It is interesting you should mention that as I completely knock out my broadband when I transmit on 3.5-3.8 MHz too and the other night I managed to lock up my Netgear router too when running 50w of CW.
Simon
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