[ILUG] Surge protector on phone-line

[Pádraig Brady]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Can one get a safety filter for an ADSL line?
> I'm responsible for a line in a foreign clime
> where there are frequent electric storms.
> {There was one last weekend,
> which seems to have knocked out the ISP.]
> 
> I've seen surge-protectors for electric sockets + phone lines.
> I couldn't get one in this case,
> so just got a surge protector on the electric sockets.
> 
> (a) Do these surge protectors actuall provide any protection?

I would think so. Protection is important for phone lines.
A few years back a lightening strike blew apart my modem
(yes even the outer plastic case).
The surge also traveled up the serial port to the PC
and blew the tops off most of the chips on the motherboard,
and also the monitor was caput.

> (b) Can one get a protector just for a phone/ADSL line?

Yes. For example.
http://www.home-phones.co.uk/asp/product.asp?product=764&ph=related
That looks expensive though for what it is.

> 
> (c) Would the phone/ADSL splitter normally provide any protection?

I think the little one I got with my BT adsl modem, had surge protection.

Pádraig.