So in the end, is it better to use WiFi?
Sure if you can also solve power supply without wires
>>740783976>not having lightning security, something figured centuries agodo americans really?
>>740783976Lightning is wireless tho
>>740783976There's no reason not to be using WiFi now.
Idk how it works in cuckmerica but here we are entitled to a replacement if lightning destroys any electronic device
>>740783976My desktop has been wifi since 2015
Very brown thread
>>740784193ummm the aether???
>>740783976This is why I always turn off and unplug my PC during storms.
>>740783976>lightning through ethernetIn the 12 milliseconds before his PC became slag, this dude downloaded the entire universe.
>>740784286and do what
>>740784236if you have insurance, sure.
>>740784336Play on my phone
>>740783976I don't really know how lightning could possibly hit a modern ethernet hookup which connects to underground fiber optic cables. My house has maybe 4 feet of exposed coaxial cable outside the house before it goes underground.
isn't a breaker or surge protector supposed to go off before it can even reach a room? or grounding dissipates it?
>>740783976lightning goes through fiber?
This is actually pretty common here in BrazilI lost 3 laptops to lightning strikes because they were always plugged into a charger
>>740784336guitar
>>740784336read a book, masturbate/have sex, scroll tiktok, eat, sleepyou know all the things that normal people do
>>740784184America literally invented it, europoor
>>740783976>a dark spirit has invaded
>>740784236But if we did this, people would exploit the system by deliberately getting their electronics zapped by lightning. Sorry, nothing we can do
>>740784385Lightning is going to rip right through that shit easily if it's a direct hit.
>>740784453and yet you don't have it
Just unplug your pc and ethernet cable during a storm you lazy fucks
Back in the 00s when my shithole had no regulations whatsoever the internet cables were often hanging in the air (mine entered my apartment hanging off of the apartment building roof) and were subject to getting some extra charge when the lightning hit the lightning rod located on the same roof.I lost maybe 2 or 3 network cards this way, never plugged it into motherboard raw though lolDoesn't matter now, they don't allow cables just hang freely anymore, most of that shit is either underground or inside buildings.>>740784286My mom used to yell at me to do this all the time kek
>>740784473and how are they gonna do that?
>>740784415do you do all these things at the same time or only one at a time?
>>740784336listen to my battery operated radio and read a book
>>740784645the order doesn't really matter and some of them are mutually exclusive (I mean I think it's quite uncomfortable trying to fap while eating and it's kinda disgsuting as fuck) but yeah you can do whatever you want
>>740784592>Oh shit it's about to storm, put the broken blu-ray player outside
Good luck I'm behind 7 fuses
>>740784286Do you unplug the ethernet cable too?
>>740784574>My mom used to yell at me to do this all the time keksame, and the one time I ignored it, lighting straight up hit my house and fried the laptop screen I had at the time.
>>740783976So did the lightning hit a telephone pole or what?
>>740784453that stock of americans don't exist anymore tho
>>740784592
>>740784812I'm connected to wifi, but if i weren't, yes. Completely unplug your PC from any physical connection to the grid and remove any possibility of a power surge frying your electronics.
>>740783976Holy shit how unlucky do you have to be?I live in the lightning capital of the USA and I never had to worry about this
>>740784286i used to do that when i was a kiddon't care anymore since nothing ever happens
>>740784812>Oh for fuck's sake, a thunderstorm is on the way... babe, where did I put the faraday cage and my great grandfather's ancient elemental protection charms? I can't let my RTX 3060 get blown up
>>740784385ethernet cables are not grounded or surge protected afaik
>>740784453>The first proper lightning rod was assembled by Father Prokop Diviš, a Czech priest and scientist, who erected a grounded lightning rod in 1754.Franklin bros, we're a total fraud
>>740783976don’t houses have them little metal rods at the top for shit like this
>>740784970It is 3rd worlders that have their internet cables hanging outside like pic related. Any lightning strike is guaranteed to fry some shit.
>>740784473https://www.thejc.com/life/what-is-jewish-lightning-and-is-it-an-antisemitic-term-q409smq2
American electrical panels are huge, couldn't they include one of these inside? They are required in my shithole (no one installs them even if they cost like 10 bucks btw).
>>740784385Do you not know how cables works? Just think about it. When they installed the cable in your house, did they run it through the main breaker? Or did they just drop it in the wall, then plug right into your router?
a lightning strike fried the ethernet port on my modem and i've been stuck on wifi ever since so i don't doubt the OP image
>>740785101
>>740785139see>>740785140Do you route the cable from the street directly to the electrical panel in your country? That is where the lightning is entering from, not the main power.
>>740785158How did it not fry the entire device?
>>740784401don't we have those 3 plug wall outlets now that are meant to prevent this?
>>740783976>lightning hits ethernet cable>motherboard is fried>lightning hits wifi>air is friedidk bro sounds worse desu
>>740783976Optical fiber wins again.
Use Wi-Fi and if you don't have your shit plugged into one of these what are you even doing?
>>740785289I've no clue, my modem had 2 ethernet ports and i switched to the second one after the first one got fried but the same thing happened again kek
>>740785158oh yeah I had one fry my ethernet port on my pc a decade ago, I had to get a pci ethernet slot
>>740783976>has 1-5k for a pc>cant afford a metal rod skicked in to the ground
>>740783976its mutt internet, they still use copper wires for it
>>740785354no consumer surge protector is going to protect your electronics from a lightning strike.
>>740784397It doesn't
>>740785472Has several times for me.
>>740785354they don't protect against lighting, retard-kun...
>>740785101That's scary, I bet some nasty mechanical spiders live there.
>>740785370God hates your modem. Are you doing gay stuff on the internet anon?
>>740785101your country looked just like that 200 years ago
>>740785637>t. superpower by 2226
The amount of people in this thread that cant read is truly sad
>>740785556So your house, trailer, condo, apartment whatever has been struck several times by lightning?
>>740783976why did the computer take a dump on the wall?
>>740785959i can't understand a single word you've written there, anon
I had 2 56kb modems fried, 1 network switch fried, 1 network switch with several switch ports fried, and 1 psu fried in my life from thunderstorm. Sometimes those surge protector wont protect fast enough or just shity, best bet would be ups or avr. Dont leave it to just your psu even if they have surge or voltage regulator.
honestly, i don't get he idea that lightning is this powerful force. couldn't you just tank it?
>>740786070Move out of Latin America
>>740785472>>740785560The surge protector will get fucked but unless the lightning flies through your window and hits the thing directly the MOV should redirect whatever does reach your outlet.
>>740785354Probably best to use a UPS with built-in surge protection
>>740786159>The surge protector will get fuckedAnd so will everything plugged intio it.It's not some magical device, it can't protect you from millions of volts.
>>740786148Close, I'm in SEA, geg. Luckily I'm in a flat now and they seem to have better lightning arrestor , the lightning just give me a quick blip these days. Though some blip can feel too fucking long.
>>740783976>Read article>Electricity travelled through an ungrounded coaxial cableAm I safe if I'm slumming it with DSL still?
>>740786238It's still not strong enough to protect your device from a lightning caused power surge. The UPS is just for safely turning off your PC if the power goes out.
>>740783976A lightning strike can come through the power outlet, or a tv antenna, it really doesn't matter.
>>740786549Nothing will 100% protect it
>>740786334you can manipulate billions of volts with a simple metal rodit isn't magic, it is in fact trivial, electricity follows the path of least resistance, when the fuse on the protector is blown the surge protector itself is fucked but the path of least resistance is now through the MOV back into the ground
I’ve been out of the game for a bit and wasn’t as involved with low voltage so correct me if I’m wrong, but cat5/cat6 is so thin and not rated for 120v (former US electrician apprentice) that I can only imagine it would vaporize before even reaching your pc?
>>740783976f your house is not wired up with surge protector fuses or have a metal pole outside, all your stuff is getting destroyed.You better hope it is grounded correctly.
Wtf is electric anyway?
>>740787020nobody knows
yes buy more goy boxes, they will save you, whatever you do dont call an electrician
Fucking magnets how do they work?
>>740785101Imagine the size of the spider
>Ameriwobble homesDo you have not have a distribution board?
>>740786760it won't have time to disconnect before passing on the destructive voltage, they are quite literally not designed to do that, it's why none of the advertise it directly.
>>740786906No idea, probably some static jumping around but I witnessed my friend network laptop port fried from lightning somewhere else and not directly on the building.Good thing theres those useful usb rj45 connector.Yeah, the laptop survived just not the port.
>>740787020it's like the water that sometimes falls from the sky: a complete and utter mystery
>>740786658Unplugging your devices from the wall will 100% protect them.
>>740787020a fundamental force of the universequite frankly, the fact that we tamed it and made it a tool for us to provide motion, heat and light as well as animate fucking rocks into playing bleeps and bloops that we call videogames is quite a feat
>>740787217That's not true, I had phones that exploded due to lithium ion degradation that way.
>>740785337Most brazillian houses don't have grounding, and the 3 pin outlets are cosmetic in those cases.
>>740787217Not always true, the lightning can sense the nearby metal and jump from the outlet, into your computer, and then fries you're PC.
>>740783976>use WiFi instead>lightning AOE burst reverbs through whole houseGreat idea
>>740787186It is not a "disconnect" the fuse is physically tripped after a certain threshold. The thing itself is not advertised to survive, and if there aren't a lot of things plugged in or it was a very direct strike lighting could still jump the gap where the fuse used to be and fry everything, but they are a lot more reliable than saying none of them will ever protect you. In all likelyhood they would.
offtopic, but it sends me into some sort of primal rage when i hear zoomers and normalfags call internet "wifi"instead of saying they have no internet signal in their phone they'll say "i have no wifi"and it doesn't even fucking compute in their brains that internet can come by cable too
>>740784453>invent something>don't use itWhat does this mean for you
>>740787362>you learned chain lightning>several of your appliance are friedT-thanks .
My best friends dad forced him to shut off the computer every time it rained
>>740787501>I'm autistic we know
>>740787562if his house was old enough it was a worthwhile precaution
>>740787020flow of charges, they balance out like cold and hot water if you mix them together, only at the speed of light and if you try to stop it they will fuck you up
>>740785354Those are for wiring problems, and even the "real ones" are rated for a utility pole failing at best.Its not going to protect you from lightning at all.
>>740784919Kek
>>740787020Valence electrons moving along/through conductive material.
>>740787302When you don't use it pull off the plug nigger.
>>740787302>sense the nearby metalelectricity isn't magicnext you will tell me it just "knows" what way is the easiest path for itor that it secretly powers our bodies or somethinglmao as if
>>740783976if the motherboard was the only thing that died i need to know the manufacturer and model of it, please.
>>740783976Just buy an UPS unit you retard monkey
>>740783976its quite simple if you have an overhead copper cable and lightning is right over you just unplug your router from the socket
>>740788083are you stupid?
>>740788001I doubt the guy took the time to buy a new motherboard and test all of his components before making that post. I even doubt he did a basic visual inspection (otherwise we'd probably have an internal pic).
>>740787517>>invent something>>don't use it>What does this mean for you>349 million people>1 of them does something stupid>NONE OF YOU GUYS USE THIS!!!What does this mean for (you)?
>>740784336Relax nigga
>>740786238This thing is garbage. Buy something better unless you like BEEP BEEP BEEP at the most possible moments.
>>740783976lots of retarded people in this thread, the lightning hit the broadband cable not the electric cable, you're not going to have surge protection on broadband cables as it would reduce the speed
>>740788558Yea that was just an example.You get what you pay for
>>740784974
>>740787020A single electron phasing infinitely through time
>>740784747You don't use your mouth to fap, do you?
I always unplug my shit out of habit when I hear lightning. Don't even care about le protection, it's no guarantee. I know people who had their electric cars blown out.
>>740789483I wish this theory was true because it sounds baller as hell
>>740787302i'm pc does not fight back the lightning? is mine pc weak?
>>740787302
>>740789526Anon why are you like this?
>>740785101it just wekrs
>>740789526is this a marilyn manson reference?
Lightning, water, wind, fire and earth - a list of all the elements conspiring to kill specifically Americans and also, notably, featured in many prominent Video Games
>>740788520>have AC but happen to live in Europe>>LMAO EUROPOOR U DONT HAVE ACWhat does this mean for me?
>>740789998>no gloveholy shit
>>740785016Seems like they developed it concurrently. I guess you could say Franklin really stole that guy's thunder though.
>>740783976Been using wifi since PS3. Zero issues.
>>740784223I prefer not having packet drops
I'm pretty sure that it's in fact illegal in my country to live in a building that doesn't have the proper protections against lightning strikes and electrical surges.Or more like, the building cannot be labeled as livable officially if those things aren't taken care of. Meaning that any taxes or welfare things etc will be fucked, therefore making it illegal to live in such a building.
>>740789998That made me incredibly anxious
>>740784385The thing to remember with electricity is anything is a conductor if you have enough current. A breaker might function and the current still jumps the gap.
>>740784123I did but the government killed me
>>740783976>is it better to use WiFi?a fucking lightning bolt chose to use the cable and you're asking if wifi is better, are you stupid?
>>740784453The demographics of then and the ones now are not the same "minority white on 24 years olds and below"-kun
>>740790405America has basically zero federal laws of that nature, so it's up to each state to adopt codes like that. However, most states have very lax or basically nonexistent laws around building codes, and instead leave it up to counties and municipalities. In some rural areas, your lucky if there are literally any laws at all. In suburban/urban areas, nearly the entire country just adopts a set of codes they write in California every year.
>>740789998the barbed wire to stop rats from climbing really sells itthis is real engineering
>>740790568sorry to hear that, ghostanon
>>740784401skill issue unironically, anão
>>740790596LOOK OUT TROTSKY
>>740784286I started doing this too but only after some of my electronics got fried. I have been mad at clouds ever since
>>740790389I'll drop my packet on your face lmao
>>740789998did he die
>>740790910worse, he lived
Instead of unplugging everything before a lightning storm, would shutting off the circuit breaker for my room be good enough?
>>740791124is he ok?
>>740787020it's that mishima move that sparkles when you do the input perfectly and kazuya goes DORYA
>>740783976>use WiFi>storm hits the cable>entire living space gets electrify
>>740791124Why did that hurt the monkey? According to Tango & Cash as long as you are only touching one wire and are not touching the ground you don't get electrocuted.
>>740790616Probably makes more sense to have it up to the state in a country so big. My country has a population less than 6 million
my mother claims she saw ball lightning enter her room through the window once and slowly make its way down the toilet or some shit
>>740791192yea bro, he's a circus monkey and was just doing a trick. He landed on a trampoline and started doing flips. The crowd loved it.
>>740791297lol
>>740791297your mother is fucking retard that was a ghost
>>740790256Heh, good one Carlos...
>>740790256>>740791387
>>740791272He was still touching the pole by the moment he touched the wire.
>>740783976Laptopschads rise up
>>740791476Is it rising from the battery expanding? Thats not good
>>740791272Can't be true. How else would birds recharge on power lines?
>>740789998Clayton went on to live a fruitful life, for his belief in God always protected him until 2 dudes in a bike killed and robbed him, amen
>>740791297https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightningWas it one of these things? It legit sounds like bullshit but apparently is a thing.
>>740791297Ball lightnings have gone almost extinct because there are so many cameras in the world now. The ball lightnings are trapped in the flash devices.
>>740791124Consider what made the OP happen was the current struck the wire and that carried the current. It wasn't that it had power, it's that it allowed the energy source to travel through it. It's why grounding things is so important because you are trying to get the energy to rapidly spread and dispersed from the current that it's traveling on. So it would help but much like the OP if the source was enough it was just keep traveling the inactive current to it's end goal.
>xwitter postperma ban this nigger from this board
>>740791585>>740791591Well, she didn't use the term "ball lightning". We live on top the floor and this was over 20 years ago when we didn't have lightning rods installed. The way she described it was "something making sparky, electric sounds entered the through window and slowly made its way to the toilet and down the drain". If it isn't ball lightning I have no idea what the fuck it was. It didn't leave any burn marks, didn't flash and didn't explode.
>>740791769The issue was never that these screen grabs were from other sources,It was always the content like e-celerbrty shit or literal who's "I have opinion" retardation.
>>740791272That round thing is an electric insulator, it prevents current from entering the pole (ground). There is a brief moment where the monkey touches both the pole and the wire.
>>740784336play on my Deck?
>>740790167I accept your concession.
>>740784286I started doing this after lighting actually hit my pc, my monitor, my switch and my ps3 simultaneously a few years ago and fried them all
>>740784453eurobrowns absolutely seething kek
>>740791782My grandparents also had similar stories.Grandpa told that a fizzing and crackling ball of light came in from a slight crack under a door and wandered around under a bench next to a wall and exit through a window. He even lifted his feet up while sitting on the bench, afraid that the ball lightning would burn his heels.
>>740784336Truke
>>740791297Every boomer claims to have seen a ball lightning sometime in the 70s.
>>740791297What happens is that people get an afterimage from looking at lightning. The rest is all imagination.
>>740789998That doesn't look too high voltage
>>740792357funny how all these weird phenomena stopped occurring when everyone started carrying a camera round
>>740784336nigga doesn't own a game boy
>>740792762exactly, the ball lightnings are captured and trapped in the camera flashes
Source ishttps://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1twehsn/router_blewup_motherboard/Looks like it was a copper internet service (coax) and the installer fucked up by not attaching a ground cable where they should have done.If your connection is fibre then this won't affect you. (Some aerial fibre drops have a metal strength member, but it'll be spliced in a box on your wall to a thinner cable with no metal which then enters your home.)If you have a coax or other copper connection then you might want to check if it's bonded. Or replace it with fibre if that's possible.Regardless of connection type, the power cables can always get you. So you should still physically unplug all your shit during a thunderstorm.
>>740784385With the massive voltage of a lightning strike, a circuit breaker can't stop it since it can easily jump the gap. Also, the surge is much faster than the breaker too, so even if it could stop it, the damage would already be done. You need a Whole Home Surge Protector for this.
>>740792762Weird take but I think it's why everyone is so much more miserable. We have no sense of mystery to the world anymore. You can't hold a lot of these physical beliefs like ghosts, cryptids and such when you know by this point they would have be discovered 30 times over.
>>740786238these things fucking suck, they straight up do not work
>>740792762It's okay now that genAI is a thing they will start happening again
>>740792975Nah, still love to read about this stuff even though I know it's bullshit.
>>740786238That's not enough to handle a lightning strike
>>740790616NEC literally exists as a base standard for electrical code and then states/cities/municipalities further build off that code with stricter rules, the code book is fucking huge I would post a pic of mine if I was home with all my tabs. It’s extremely strict and backed up by law, quit being retarded trying to sound smart.
>>740793132>>740793312see>>740788754
>>740793539I'm not saying that particular brand sucks, i'm saying that UPSs do not fucking work. I have had tons of them, IT at work loves to fucking hook my computer up to them if I don't glare at them when they come by
>>740783976why would a lightning strike even be able to enter the ethernet cable?do you have an antenna on the roof directly connecting to your PC or something?
>>740793747see >>740792928
>>740785162>picThis but genuinely. I don't get the seethe at the electric showerhead
>>740793867brazilians literally get zapped by it
>>740784336...go outside?
>>740793784still on copper wiring for internet is some turd world shit
>>740784336sex with my gf
>>740787562I do this but only if it's a legit thunder storm
Just plug the Ethernet through your surge protector. You have a surge protector with Ethernet ports, right?
>>740793928because they let their handy uncles do the electrician work instead of hiring a certified professionalshowering during a storm is fucking scary, though, best avoid it entirely
>>740793970>Strike me down, Zeus!
>>740793928Fucking how? The closest I can think is the current crawling back in the water into the pipe and getting you through a metal valve
>>740784919Where Saddam?
>>740794843This sort of static shock can happen, although it is pretty rare and only happens when the shower/house has no grounding (unfortunately common around here).>>740794283Also, yeah, this and doing the thing everyone and their grandmothers know you should not do (touch showerhead to switch temperature while the water is still flowing)>> what about kidskids can't reach the showerhead on their own anyway.
>>740795058he's grounded
>>740793747see >>740784919
>>740786989Those won't stop a direct strike though
>>740795554Dunno man, sounds like bullshit boomers say, like looking into mirrors cross eyed and leaving flip-flops upside down.
Should of gotten fiber
>>740795872
>>740784336
>>740793138Based Techbros leading us into a dystopia where nobody can afford technology and the age verification nightmare caused by their creations makes us lose all our privacy rights but at least I can generate funny cat videos
>>740784336watch the lightning strikes from the window, duh
>>740787127And I don't even want an answer from a scientist, y'all mother fuckers lying and getting me pissed
>>740784123tesla already did that
>>740783976kuwabara kuwabara
>>740796927>obscure japanese reference
>>740787217ENTER
>>740797595>this happened>source: some painting
>>740783976Lightning hit the next building to mine a few years ago, only fried the ethernet port
>>740792439They all grew up at the same Chernobyl Exclusion Zone>>740792624It's crazy how some people just can't filter reality from fantasy
>>740784453invented what? a fucking pole in the ground?
>>740785959What? Speak up, I can't read what you're saying.
>>740784862If the lightning hits anywhere in close proximity to a line that's directly connected to your house, it can induce a current that can fry electronics that are wired to the internet. This is why you should get a few lightning protection fuses for the coaxial and screw one before it enters your router. They're really cheap too. You don't wanna be the guy from OP.
>>740784336post on 4chan
>>740784336>he doesn't a handheld PC backup
>>740791297my great grandmother was officially killed by ball lightning, she was sitting in her chair during a storm and it drifted in and killed her, she legit even had it on her death certificateLE SCIENCE decided it doesn't exist though so nobody believes it nowadays
>>740795674Underrated post
>>740791508
>>740783976WiFi should be banned.
>>740796814>>740784123induction has been around for a while, but you loose a lot of power and the range is also very limited.it would be more efficient to transform back and forth between electric and mechanical energy which you can do without a cable or just install proper fuses.
NGL I get scared driving in lightning storm.
>>740798145No it's always americans
>>740795674HA
>>740799704Being in a car is actually pretty safe in terms of lightning strikes. Your car is pretty much a giant Faraday cage and your body is definitely not the path of least resistance to the ground through it. Might fry the electrical parts if your unlucky though.Really just the rain and water on the road is way more dangerous.
>>740783976thats obviously not a lighting through rj45xitter thread
>>740791585One of these days we're gonna see it happen to someone during a live stream and I hope it's gonna be while they're doing something really embarrassing.
>>740800112OK sure thing bro
>>740799704one of the safest places you could be ironically
>>740792309>>740790775>>740783976how much does God have to hate you for something like this ot happen to youare you the antichrist?
>>740783976>virgin motherboard couldn't handle the Chad IPv4 packet
>>740790167>Can't even have a simple discussion without resorting to logical fallaciesThis is why Indians have taken over your continent.
>>740801301based
>>740789724So called "science" still can't explain this, BTW
>>740801301
>>740783976Yes, if you live in place with not lightning rods nearby.
>>740784286I lost a pc to a lightning strike and I don't do this. Any more at least. There's a small part of me that wants it to happen so I can have an excuse to buy a new one
>>740801301lightninggers in shambles
>>740784336commit sudoku
>>740783976You all your modern UPS allows you to connect your Ethernet cord through them so your PC is protected
>>740795674lol
>>740783976Decendant of a former Electrician and Network IT guy here. There's no way for the electricity to run up a nigga into the mobo, chances our he plugged the fucking ethernet into the power cord causing a short.
>>740793312Yes it is, you don't know what you are talking about. If you were in the industry you are supposed to do math on it to figure out what size PSU you know to buy. You also get insurance from the PSU company by registering it.
>>740801382He was playing The Last of Us 2 and God does not stand for such degeneracy.
>>740790751heh
>coaxial internet cablewhat kind of favelamonkey doesn't have an optic fiber connection nowadays
>>740791387>>740791452heheheheheheh
>>740801707They can they just don't want you to know because of the implications of the knowledge. The universe is electric and they don't want you to know that.
>>740802136He used coaxial cable for the internet, it's just a copperwire that the lightning conducted through.
>>740789998Imagine being a small little pooplett jeet, just discovering the landfill you were born into. You're playing with your poop stick, swinging it at your imaginary hand sanitizer and antimicrobial soap monsters. You see this armored pole, swing it in its weak spot and instantly get zapped into a reincarnated roach. Grim
>>740784336try to suck my own dick
>>740787020magnetic light
>>740783976>you should have shit unstable internet at all times because of a 1 in a million accident
>>740792975What is your position on trans rights?
This always worries me a bit, my ethernet runs up the side of my house because that was the easiest way to install it.
>>740805180you should take a weekend to do it right
maybe dont live in shitholes with lighting strikes?>i'm going to live in a place with earthquakes i'm so smart!>i'm going to live in a place with tsunamis i'm so smart!>i'm going to live in a place with tornados i'm so smart!>i'm going to live in a place full of niggers i'm so smart!
>>740805569there's nowhere on earth without some sort of natural disaster
>>740805464How do you suggest it's done right? If you have no basement or crawl space, that cord runs up your house and drills straight into your wall.
>>740805772run it through the walls
>>740805464I can't be fucked fishing up a cable through the attic, it was much easier to just drill a hole in the wall.
>>740784123Thunder hitting a power cable will contribute to power generation on the entire grid. This is a good thing.
>>740793618Sure, they don't work, that's why we use it in server rooms that need to stay up 24/7.
>>740806167you use them because you're unthinking sheep
>>740785101I've had an optic cable running from pole through balcony into modem for several years and never had shit fried
>>740805879It still has to drill into the wall from the outside. It has to run up from the ground past the foundation into your wall... where you run it from there is up to you
>>740784336Shitpost on 4chan telepathically
>>740783976this happened to me but it wasn't dramatic like this at all, just a thunderstorm leading to a dead motherboard.
>>740806202low IQ
>>740806202Guess all of the banks I worked for as an IT are unthinking sheep then.
>>740806808when it comes to liability, yes, absolutely
>>740793618>UPSs do not fucking workthey don't work how? this is like saying a hammer doesn't work. wtf are you trying to use it for?
>>740806808i also work IT and that's so unthinkable is actually void insurances here
>>740801860In this economy? Are you insane?
>>740807027i have never in my life seen a ups provide seamless switchover to backup power. they don't work, your shit turns off every time, and then in the meantime you have this huge fucking block that just sits awkwardly near your desk. garbage
>>740807226Skill issue, works on my machine.Mine can power my computer, screens, and router for about 15 minutes if the power goes out.Maybe try getting a quality UPS and not some 30 bucks crap from Etsy.
>>740783976>he doesn't use his thunder catcher for internethttps://youtu.be/BCXhud-9TQw&t=470
>>740807226anon my pc switches over to UPS power at least once a day because of my country's shitty infrastructure. been this way for years too, pc is working fine. the lights go out but my pc, monitors, and accessories still work for at least 20 minutes. even my printer and router are on it, i literally don't even lose internet during a power outage if it's brief enough.
>>740787079Particle Man
Man... I really need to fix my UPS
>>740802638>GrimWhy? He's getting an upgrade
>>740807973What model? I've been thinking of getting a UPS.
>>740803606the 'Amazon Position'
>>740808660>>740807689 here, I have a Eaton 3S 850 that has been serving me well since 2021, my PC never shut down on me after the power was cut, and it also handles Ethernet ports..
>>740808660as long as you're spending at least $300 i don't know how you could go wrong
>>740807226Because your UPS is too small for the power you are trying to backup. It's supposed to give you enough power to save your work and shut down. Backups that keep your server running are more commercial and expensive. But for a PC UPS is fine you just probably have one that is old and small or bad battery
>>740798735i summoned that ball lightning
>>740798346we've been putting poles in the ground since 1654
>>740784989They are supposed to be.Nothing is going to stop a direct lightning strike, but most electronics damage is from power surges caused by indirect strikes.
>>740810685europe has floods, blizzards, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions depending on the area
>>740789998
>>740805713come to brazilat least my city is natural disaster free
>>740810875uh it's full of brazilians
>>740810923there's no place on earth that has no natural disasters or isn't full of black kings or indians or poors
>>740810875you guys get floods and landslides all the time
>>740811047no yeah but like i said my city has none of that, I've lived in the capital and it had floods pretty frequently though yes
>>740811173>my citymy house hasn't had any diasters lately either, and it's 100% nigger freethe square meter my chair is placed on hasn't seen anything dramatic happen since the last ice age
>>740809896Based
I think this is a thirdworld problem where they still have copper wiresthis isn't possible on fiber.../v/ is brown
>>740787020>Wtf is electric anyway?Shocking
>>740811268ok? that's like complaining about natural disasters because the city 300km away from you is constantly hit by earthquakes while you've never seen an earthquake in your life
>>740811417cable shielding still carries extreme currents, totally-not-a-pale-nigger-san
>>740811442brazil gets earthquakes all over, it's legit just luck whether it hits your house in particular
>>740810709There are also plenty of options for indoor surge protectors with ethernet and coax ports.
>>740811714You're actually right (I had no idea) but all of them are pretty weak and mostly happen in the northern and western part of the country.
>>740811030Finland>No earthquakes>No volcanoes>No floods>No droughts>No tidal waves>No hurricanes or tornadoes>Blacks make up only 1,4% of the population, so basically 0 outside biggest three cities
>>740784970THISWTH I HAVE NEVER EVER HEARD OF THIS PROBLEM!I PLAY DURING LIGHTNING STORMS ALL THE TIME!
>>740792762Two have been captured on video, one of them also on a spectrograph. They also weren't very common, and the dropoff in sightings coincides with electrification and newer building codes, not cameras.
How in the fuck a lighting would reach your ethernet port when everything is Fiber now?
>>740784336I always have doujins printed out in letter size paper. Just in case power goes out or a storm comes.
>>740812176>days with no sun>days with sun 24/7cursed landDoesn't it also have high suicide rates?
>>740784286I have a surge protector
>>740811421goddamn lightning is so fucking cool
>>740812307source? only one I found in alberta looked so far away that it couldve been an electric arc blinding the shitty lens
>>740783976there are surge protectors with cable and ethernet ports
>>740812176you guys have hit negative sixty fucking degrees in the winter, what more disasters would you have God give you?
>>740806163It will hopefully kill everyone in your house!
>>740788174
"internet cable"
>>740784453seethe harder, eurocucks. you’re forever trapped in the america’s shadow, and it fills you with inadequacy
>>740812950>superiority complex based off of a misinformed and outright incorrect worldviewThis post is peak american.
>>740812458That's the downside, yes. Suicides are greatly exaggerated though: Estonia, France and Iceland have similar rates, Eastern Europe like 2-5x worse. >>740812638Thanks to climate change we barely see even snow anymore in the south since in here it affects winter temperatures a lot more than summer temperatures. We had like 2 months of -3 to -5*C in the capital. Which is unironically worse since the shitty "between 0-10 *C where everything is dark, wet, still cold enough and muddy" season is vastly longer
>>740801707please go be stupid somewhere else
>>740784336Do you not own a handheld?
>>740784336>and do whatgo on the roof and taunt god of course. pussies.
>>740806524I mean, that's dramatic
>>740784184Lightning fried my ethernet socket. Now I just unplug everything when there's a storm.t. Europoor
>>740784989Every single UPS on the market has ports for ethernet.
>>740815104HMMMMMM I WONDER WHY THAT IS
>>740787285What? That's the easiest thing to implement and completely free. Just run a wire to a stake in the literal ground.
>>740815313what if you live in midgar upper plate? How are you gonna ground that shit down below
>>740784336have consensual sex with my 17 years, 364 days and 23 hours old gf(I'm 40)
>>740783976he's becoming more powerful
>>740784123laptopnext
I just remembered if I touch a metal part on my PC case and something like a metal part of a radiator (the kind under your window), I can feel electricity surging through me because my house's power grid is fucked up, and grounding doesn't work at all. If lightning strikes it I have 100% chance to die
>>740812307Are you talking about the video at the train tracks and the other at a parking lot? Both fake.
>>740815313Huehue houses are all brick and mortar anon, if they want to run grounding they have to bust open the walls (because the cable ducts are too small as well when they were built), and nobody wants to do that.New houses are built up to code with grounding tho.
>>740802708Any success so far?
>>740783976on the bright side, lighting won't ever strike it again
>>740784286>Buy Surge Protector and a Uninteruptable Power Supply.>Power goes out because of some record breaking storm>UPS has a battery life of ~12 hours and I literally don't even notice it.
>>740783976>internet cable
>>740815483Whoa, can I come over to your house anon?
>>740815483sick fucking pedo fucker
>>740816105What else would you call the cable that the internet comes out of
>>740816293tube
>>740816293bbw futa porno tube
>>740816293Internet particle vessel
>>740816293telephone line
>>740816293rooty tooty point-and-shooty
>>740816057>UPS has a battery life of ~12 hoursDoubt
>>740816479It was a coaxial cable set up not DSL
>>740816057Anon has a tesla wall battery as UPS
>>740784453Americans also invented free market and for some rrason they don't use it.
>>740815839you should get that fixed.
>>740816057ups supposedly only last for like 10 minute after power outage
>>740817450what happens if you store the grounding rod inside your penis and then lightning strikes your house?
>>740817534They aren't meant as a replacement when power goes out. They are there so you can gracefully shut things down or allow time for a backup generator to kick in
>>740784453America? like the whole 2 continents? Im pretty sure it was a US thing but ok...
>>740783976>internet cableAbsolute state of tech "journalism".
>>740785120I always forget that the ones that are the most anti-semitic isn't me but always themselves.
>>740784193Checkmate, faggots
>>740817707it's 5/8ths thick and 8 foot long
>>740783976Imagine not having a grounding wirefucking retards
>>740817991
>>740784336Socialise, zoomie.Storms usually last less than half an hour at least where I live.
>>740799629>looselearn English you fucking nigger
>>740784336ur mom
>>740784223It's funny to me how people on /v/ claim to be able to see the difference between 120 and 150 frames but you dumb fucks can't see a game jitter and lag from wifi.
>>740818149Let me just go out in the storm and walk to someone elses place unannoucned so I can socialize
>>740784223This post glows >>740784236Not sure if based, but definitely interesting. Where is that? >>740784919holy based
>>740790256CARLOOOOOOOOOOS!
>>740790167>you are retarded so it's fine that i am also retarded
>>740784415>have sexwith whom?
>>740812469>>740812604>>740815104>>740816057There is no surge protector you can buy strong enough that will protect your devices from a lightning strike. That's not what they're built for. You're better off just unplugging your most expensive shit you don't want fried.
>>740783976This almost happened to me. Lightning hit a tree about 40 feet from the house. It killed a bunch of smaller devices like routers and DVD players, but luckily my computers and server did not die. I looked into protections against this in the future but there really is nothing that can protect against lightning.
>>740783976Just unplug your ethernet cable when not using your PC. Or get one those surge protectors for it
>>740783976I got an UPS.
>>740820445Just install a lightning pole
>>740794283>showering during a storm is fucking scary, though, best avoid it entirelyPussy, the most it can happen is that you get a sudden cold shower
>>740784123Just hook a solar panel to your pc lol
>>740787447this makes no sense. the surge protector would be plugged into my wall which is plugged into my electrical panel which already has a bunch of fuses, making this thing completely redundant
>>740785354Nothing protects from lightning. Even if you unplug everthing if it strikes close enough your shit will get fried from the EMP.
>>740820757more of a FedEx man myself
>>740821654Had a router die once after a lightning strike hit the ground near the room it was in, but every other device there was fine
>>740790256Carlos!
>>740815665???
>>740783976>mom was right all along
Lightning should strike me in my ASSi can take that pussy weak ass bitch
>>740783976No? Don't connect your PC directly to the fucking outlet ethernet. You always go through a surge protector with expensive electronics. All the decent ones (even 50-150 dollar ones) have ethernet pass through surge protection. Who builds a 2,000$ system and just plugs it in to the fucking wall.
>>740784453Burgeristanis invent shitty tech and then never upgrade when it's improved by europeans. Look really any tech out there. USA always uses some inferior legacy variant.
>>740784286If your home is hit by enough lightning that it would come out of the outlet and into your PC, it's better to have it plugged and redirected into one device instead of letting the lightning fly freely out of the outlet.
>>740823506Anon has magic chain lightning here chasing his electronics
>>740823263Surge protects don't protect against lightning
>>740823506Is the lightning in the room with you right now?
>>740823785It comes and goes in a flash.
>>740823785>>740823869
>>740823724>surge protects don't protect against lightningYes they do, provided you're getting a real protector like: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KJHN14R for cable internet and https://www.amazon.com/Tupavco-Ethernet-Protector-Gigabit-1000Mbs/dp/B00805VUD8 for ethernet (assuming it came in from home wiring). That's why I said 50-150 dollars. They have come down a lot in price since I installed some in my home though.
>>740783976In the end it's better to unplug your shit during thunderstorms
>>740824008what if you're outside and thunderstorm hit your area and you're an hour out and your stuff is plugged in and you're pc is on download palworld porn
>>740783976This was 33 seconds after he typed "god is gay" on an indian miniature boat building hobby forum.
>>740824284Tell your AI Waifu-bot to unplug it for you
>>740815839>a radiator (the kind under your window)what
>>740824284Pray
>>740824284>you're pc is on download palworld pornThen you deserve to have your belongings detonated into ash.
>>740824284foil on penis and embrace dazzi's warmth
>>740824548pic related
>>740784223I live in America. Out internet is trash and every little bit we can do to improve stability helps.
>>740824548These are common in cold areas and places where steam is a utility (like NYC). They radiate heat from the steam into the room. You put them under each window to counteract drafts and avoid condensation in exterior walls.
>>740824671Oh, duh, Ive seen those before, I think in home alone or spiderman or something.Im sorry you live in a city anon, nobody should be 90 minutes away from touching grass. Best of luck and please fix your grounding issue.
>>740825003>steam is a utility (like NYC)what the actual fuck.is this why the ground is always steaming at night in movies about cities?
>>740825080Yep, that's it.
laptop NIGGER here what do you guys suggest to buy for protecting my shit against lightning strikes
>>740786238i used this for 4 years before it died, did pretty good for the price in protecting my PC from power outages. i doubt it would do shit against lightning though.
>>740815058Is your country Eastern European
>>740784123Do you guys not have phones?
>>740825327Thats actually way cooler than I thought. My impression was that it was purely for visual effect, or that it was supposed to be sewer gas or something.
>>740824853>I live in America. Out internet is trashAmerican here, I think it's a you problem.
>>740825080some buildings are so tall they would literally need to build their very own power plant inside the building or nearby to heat up the building if they did it themselves, which means a lot of maintenance and also fuel to keep the generator running.
>>740799629I'm 99% sure induction's range is so close the lightning would arc through the gap anyways. I've heard stories of lightning arcing from one outlet to another across an entire room.
>>740825973A building having its own boiler isn't rare at all. It could be kinda fucked if it was a massive skyscraper though, but not impossible either.
>>740783976should have bought my gold plated double insulated wonder cables. only $1200.
>>740811421Is that in slow motion or are all vehicles driving cautiously?
>>740815839when the humidity in my house is below 20 my computer starts zapping me
>>740826209Are you retarded? It's fucking lightning.
>>740802172No, you don't know what you're talking about. Using a UPS for lightning strike protection is absolutely retarded, as that's not what they are meant for. There are no consumer UPS capable of handling that amount of power. For power outages and random power surges sure, but a lightning strike will easily jump the gap inside the device.
>>740824284accept divine judgement for being a furry
>>740826842They literally do protect you from lightning. Unless you are in a third world country, those random power surges are typically caused by lightning strikes somewhere near. maybe not right on top. You would hope that the grounding in your house would eat most of it.
>>740823984Not against anything like a direct strike
>>740826426>humidity>below 20Damn desert dwellers.
Wait, is ethernet not grounded?
>>740784336Read, talk to my family, cook, do excercise, play with my pets, etc.
>>740783976It's better to have properly grounded wires built into your fucking house so when you get a huge surge, it will go into the ground. This is way more common outside of the US.btw, Internet cables is very very low voltage cables that really would never do damage like that. It's likely lighting went through the power supply but his house isn't properly grounded.
>>740812469Not the same as unplugging it.A lightning can still fry your PC.
>>740828258It went through the coaxial cable, which is copper.
Any dream router 7 users here?Thinking of getting one, a switch, and two aps with a 10gb isp
What’s the difference between poe and poe+Do I need either
>>740824853i've had fiber in the midwest for years and it's fantastic
>>740783976Imagine just fapping nonchalantly to loli futa and this happens. Awkward.
>>740820445there exist surge protectors for your home's breaker box that will prevent any kind of overload but i still think lightning isn't guaranteed to be redirected entirely
>>740789998>webms you can smellis it just me or electrical panels smell really good.
>>740829369if you're smelling something (probably ozone) from an electrical panel, that shit's probably arcing
>>740828739>pays for 10Gb internet>just uses wifiYou're the worst kind of person. Be a real man and run ethernet via a managed 4-10 port 10GbE switch or 10Gb SFP (and get a card for it). WiFi 7 is a MESS. I deploy Ubiquity APs for the Grizzlies (basketball team) on their IT team and even their most expensive WiFi 7 AP is TRASH. You won't get the speeds you want on the new standard bands because the standard is essentially non-existent and the wideband channels are trash at range/penetration. Like bad enough that if a cat walks between you and your router your signal will degrade enough to desync your online game session. But if you want to piss away a bunch of money on something useless by all means go for it. Cat7 10GBASE-T is dirt cheap and the PCIe cards can be had (of good quality) for 50$. Then I'd advise getting a WiFi 6e router, disabling MLO and setting that up for your coomsoomer devices that need wireless network for whatever reason (which I don't get, everything I own has ethernet even my TV, but it is handy for Switch handheld mode).
>>740809863>Because your UPS is too small for the power you are trying to backupA proper (line-interactive) UPS won't even turn on if all the electonics you plug in exceed VA it's rated for.
>>740784223Packet loss in some games can be annoying.
>>740784336I go up the hill to fetch a pail of water
>>740827817i hate humidity
>>740784385The only thing grounded I most houses is the electric cables, aka copper wiring. ethernet, cable tv, etc, CAN be grounded but often it is not. My surge protector saved my pc from a lightning strike but the alarm system of the entire house got fried. And surge protection is only viable up to a certain voltage if it's a direct hit say bye bye to anything with a circuit in it.
>>740823506This sounds like something lightning would say.
>>740784473so? companies should be forced to eat that cost
>>740812384My man, go to doujin republic or any equivalent and purchase yourself a physical copy to support your favorite circles
>>740783976no, you don't use your pc during storms.also yes you unplug the ethernet cablewifi sucks dick, will always suck dick because there are 99999 other niggas using the same channels/frequencies
>>740829029they still take a few milliseconds to get activated, and lightning are gorillion of volts, so it rapes your ass even during that tiny window.
>>740829854You sound like you know what you're talking about. I'll take this note to heart.
>>740829854Oh and a 10 GbE switch (Flex 10?) is in the setup as well. We're only using U7 Pros for the phones/mac.
>>740827625Against an indirect strike maybe, though even in that case they are subpar compared to an actual type 2 SPD. UPS devices are meant to be used as battery backups, nothing more. And against a direct strike, they won't do anything.
>>740815665you need your laptop plugged in to get the most performance, you really shouldn't be gaming on it unplugged, especially gaming laptops.
>>740784336Sex with >>740794098 gf
>>740783976That happened to me.Everything else in the house was fine besides the splitter, the router and my PC.
why do the parasites on the internet need to post cognitohazards every second of the day
>>740783976>install isolated lightning rods in ceiling>multiple wires lead to grounded spikes in the ground>don't worry about also install gfci's
>>740830960To fetch a crummy pail of water? They should be fetching Pokemon creatures!
>>740783976just unplug your shit during storms like a normal person>but.... my surge protector!!If it had enough energy to go through several kilometers of atmosphere it will cut through your surge protector
>>740790568RIP Tesla anon
>>740784236Same but only it's under warranty and mostly because vendors never check if the damage was caused because of lighting because how the fuck they are going to check, they are just a retailer.
>>740795674That was actually funny, anon
>>740823506lol
>>740785041Yea but lan is not grounded. It comes directly from the line without going through any inhouse ground unless you get a lan grounding fuse thing but that will completely kill your speeds.
>just use wifi
>>740784336Read a book?
>>740798346Bro, our entire world infrastructure is build on poles in the ground. Water boilers WISH they had the monopoly on all things that groundpoles have.
>>740837608I hope those parents used gloves
Is this whole thread bait?Isn't fiber optic like the one wire that doesn't conduct electricity? Hello? Anyone... I don't get it
>>740812743I'm slightly retarded, what's the difference between an outlet, an ECO outlet and a master outlet?
>>740825987Lightning arcs from like 10km in the sky, it doesn't care for an extra few meters
>>740838505>the average apartment experience
>>740817991yeah. yeah. what about the grounding rod tho
>>740784336have sex with my doll
>>740844729You drugged your own doll?
I hate wires
>>740812950>t. Trailer park Lenny Spare no Jewish cocks faggots, leave 'em all dry!
>>740795674>TRIPLE MEANINGGood one
