Not completely relevant to DSL, but a few years ago my US friend had a very close strike (wasn't there so don't know how close). He has cable tv/internet and a surge was induced in the cable line, which blew out his modem, his router AND travelled down the ethernet wire to my computer and destroyed the NIC. His computer survived because he was on a much longer ethernet cable which managed to dissipate what was left of the surge to manageable levels before it hit his comp.
It had to have come down the cable line because the mains was protected and the surge protectors were still operating, plus my computer was fine, only the network card got damaged (all 3 items were on the same surge protector)
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Topic: Electrical storms and “subtle” damage (Read 5793 times)