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Tam, your experience of 25 years per fulraie is a single data point, and it might even be average. The risk is due to the spread of the rest of the data.Back in 2003, I lost the built-in phone modem on my previous computer, a Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook, due to lightning. We lived in the mountains then, and the only internet we had was 56K dial-up. I was outside, standing on the deck at the front of my house, when a lightning strike hit the ground about 100 yards away. My hair stood up like the Ghost of Nikola was pulling on it.This was an ordinary summer day during the "monsoon season". Every day, it would cloud up of a morning and rain briefly in the afternoon. The sky was clear overhead while light rain and lightning were making noise about five miles away. (The noise of thunder rolling about the valley is mesmerizing, which is why I was out watching and listening.)The modem passed all its internal diagnostics, but the phone line was quite dead if it was plugged into the modem. Dell replaced the modem board, which was slightly bigger than a postage stamp, under warranty, and the rest of the computer was fine.There was no other damage anywhere in the house. Go figure.I replaced that nine-year-old computer only last April when the display began failing. It would have cost more to replace the failed parts than the whole computer would have been worth after the repair.So, I am cautious. The computer is replaceable, but the data is not. I do careful backups, but the cost and aggravation of replacing a computer and restoring the data is worth preventing.However, my home network is hard-wired (and so highly secure), and now our two computers (both new notebooks), are quite capable of Wi-Fi. I am considering replacing our router with a version that is both Wi-Fi and hard-wired capable, which would let us run on battery power during storms, risking only the modem and router.Oh, and that mountain area where we lived? It's now being "rewired". Everywhere there is an electric service meter, there will be 100 MBPS fiber-optic internet service available.
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Norio
MESSAGE TIMESTAMP
18 december 2014, 02:31:28
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