Hmmm,
I just got back online yesterday since going offline on Tuesday evening, when lightning struck about ~200m away from my house, it affected a telegraph pole which of course was the telecoms to my house. The lightning also thought it would be a good idea to ground itself through *MY* modem which was rather interesting :-) as when I came and sat down near the computer I noticed that it was in two rather distinctive parts, and all the magic smoke that made it work had escaped!
Anyway after counting the cost (luckily I am insured) It cost me 2 modems, two motherboards (it blew a serial port and parallel port in both!), two telephone handsets and a fan heater! (I don't knowhow it got the last but it appeared to jump through a powered phone and back into the electric supply in the house).
Anyway when I get the photos developed I will put them online, all the phone sockets in the house were blown and the wet string that connected us to the telegraph pole was also hosed as the cable had burst in 3 seperate places!
BTW the BT engineer also told me that you can now use the BT diagnosis phone no. to work out how far away you are from the exchange, so you can work out if you will be able to get ADSL.
You will get warned that you have to be authorised to do this but it never gets checked so don't worry. To get this info dial 17070 then (dial) 3 (you have to listen to this message) then dial 1 and finally 2
Adam
I am sorry to hear about your troubles, still at least its insured and you will probably get newer better faster kit to replace it so look on the bright side.
How was the Enigma movie?
Regards
Owen
On 28-Sep-01 Adam Bower wrote:
Hmmm,
I just got back online yesterday since going offline on Tuesday evening, when lightning struck about ~200m away from my house, it affected a telegraph pole which of course was the telecoms to my house. The lightning also thought it would be a good idea to ground itself through *MY* modem which was rather interesting :-) as when I came and sat down near the computer I noticed that it was in two rather distinctive parts, and all the magic smoke that made it work had escaped!
Anyway after counting the cost (luckily I am insured) It cost me 2 modems, two motherboards (it blew a serial port and parallel port in both!), two telephone handsets and a fan heater! (I don't knowhow it got the last but it appeared to jump through a powered phone and back into the electric supply in the house).
Anyway when I get the photos developed I will put them online, all the phone sockets in the house were blown and the wet string that connected us to the telegraph pole was also hosed as the cable had burst in 3 seperate places!
BTW the BT engineer also told me that you can now use the BT diagnosis phone no. to work out how far away you are from the exchange, so you can work out if you will be able to get ADSL.
You will get warned that you have to be authorised to do this but it never gets checked so don't worry. To get this info dial 17070 then (dial) 3 (you have to listen to this message) then dial 1 and finally 2
Adam
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Date: 28-Sep-01 Time: 11:31:46
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 oms101@freeuk.com wrote:
I am sorry to hear about your troubles, still at least its insured and you will probably get newer better faster kit to replace it so look on the bright side.
Oh, I wasn't that bothered the first thing I did when I saw the damage was say "cool" and then burst out laughing :-) what did suck was doing dial-up over my mobile phone (9600 baud, yuck).
How was the Enigma movie?
Ermm, well it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. Then thats not saying very much, the interesting bit was the character who resembled Alan Turing very closely had a changed name and was no longer gay as he slept with two women in the course of the film. Probably best to wait for it on video IMHO and then forget about it!
Does the other Alug person who came to see it what to comment?
Adam
On Fri, 2001-09-28 at 13:58, Adam Bower wrote:
Ermm, well it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. Then thats not saying very much, the interesting bit was the character who resembled Alan Turing very closely had a changed name and was no longer gay as he slept with two women in the course of the film. Probably best to wait for it on video IMHO and then forget about it!
Does the other Alug person who came to see it what to comment?
Probably best summed up with:
Well the ticket was free!
:)
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