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This is a complete guess as to the cause...but after the storms a couple of days ago our internet went down and it looks like it was due to a hit of lightning.

All electric items in the house are OK apart from the red squared items below.

Is it odd that whatever the surge was went straight through the Home Hub and only killed the first two switch type things it encoutered?
The second 5 port switch is fine, as is the hub and all the devices. Wifi is also working as normal.

The two damaged items are not located in the same room, so I'm guessing the surge was confined to the internet cables? Did it strike the phone line or was it strictly a power cable thing?

Our network goes:
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A bit of an annoyance as now I need to shell out for new powerline adapters and another switch.

Neither will turn on / light-up.

Anyone else encounter this last week?
 
neil_g said:
if it went through the phone line/network id expect all devices would've been fried.

id imagine the two devices were just more susceptible to power surge.
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I just think it's odd that out of the 100-150 odd devices we have plugged in in the house it was only two very physically different but functionally similar internet based devices.

I only thought internet as that's what the two devices had in common.
 
Some make/models are just plain bad at power "events".

We used to use a certain model of linksys router which would either pop at the slightest hint of a power wobble or drop it's firmware bricking it.
 
Several companies I know have had direct lightning strikes and it's taken out some equipment and left others working fine.
 
If it went via the telephone line the BT Hub would have died first, I bet the lighting hit the power lines and devices that had good power supply units survived and those that had crappy power supplies died.
 
redsnappa said:
If it went via the telephone line the BT Hub would have died first, I bet the lighting hit the power lines and devices that had good power supply units survived and those that had crappy power supplies died.
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that's what I was getting at. however I suspect it was not a direct strike to the OP cabling and more of a surge as a result of a strike elsewhere (i.e. a pylon)
 
Chappers said:
Several companies I know have had direct lightning strikes and it's taken out some equipment and left others working fine.
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In that case I'm happy it was just the two bits, the rest of our equipment must be of better quality.
 
redsnappa said:
If it went via the telephone line the BT Hub would have died first, I bet the lighting hit the power lines and devices that had good power supply units survived and those that had crappy power supplies died.
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It was only the two bits. The power line adapters were provided by BT so would have expected them to be half way decent. Not surprised by the 5 port switch as the power supply for it was cheap as chips.
 
neil_g said:
that's what I was getting at. however I suspect it was not a direct strike to the OP cabling and more of a surge as a result of a strike elsewhere (i.e. a pylon)
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I naively assumed it was something on my house or immediately next to it that was hit.

I was out shooting these pylons near my house so it all adds up - I didn't realise until looking again they were striking the pylons:

Streaky Bolts by ACW#, on Flickr
 
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Most powerline plugs are produced without a second thought about EMC performance, so I woudn't expect them to bother with good quality power supplies either!
 
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