I’ve had firsthand experience of a lightning strike hitting some gear that I maintained…
My parent’s house got hit right on the TV antenna, which was connected via coax down the the booster/splitter unit in comms cupboard … then somehow it got onto the nearby network patch panel and fried every wired ethernet controller attached to the network, including those built into switch ports, APs, etc. In the network switch, the current destroyed the device’s power supply too, as it was trying to get to ground I guess.
Still a bit of a mystery how it got from the coax to the cat5. maybe a close parallel run the electricians put in somewhere ?
Total network refit required, but thankfully there were no wired computers on site… I can imagine storage devices wouldn’t have fared very well.
My parent’s house got hit right on the TV antenna, which was connected via coax down the the booster/splitter unit in comms cupboard … then somehow it got onto the nearby network patch panel and fried every wired ethernet controller attached to the network, including those built into switch ports, APs, etc. In the network switch, the current destroyed the device’s power supply too, as it was trying to get to ground I guess.
Still a bit of a mystery how it got from the coax to the cat5. maybe a close parallel run the electricians put in somewhere ?
Total network refit required, but thankfully there were no wired computers on site… I can imagine storage devices wouldn’t have fared very well.