Anybody else live where there is a lot of thunder and lightning? Around this time of year it seems that almost every day during the afternoon there is serious thunder and lightning without fail. It's bad enough that ALSO every day the internet goes down during the storms as well as the occasional power flicker.
The power comes back on instantly so it's just the annoyance of setting every clock again, but, the internet seems to be down for hours at a time during each storm.
Always seems to happen right while I was in the middle of something too..
The worst part is that since lightning is so common here it's highly recommended that computers and other valuable electronic devices be unplugged during lightning storms. So even if the internet isn't down, all computers are. It's not usually until after things settle down and I plug everything back in that I realize that the internet is down. Not much I can do about that but wait.
I don't really know why it happens either except that maybe it has something to do with having DSL instead of cable. Even so the phones still work so it's just strange.
The power comes back on instantly so it's just the annoyance of setting every clock again, but, the internet seems to be down for hours at a time during each storm.
Always seems to happen right while I was in the middle of something too..
The worst part is that since lightning is so common here it's highly recommended that computers and other valuable electronic devices be unplugged during lightning storms. So even if the internet isn't down, all computers are. It's not usually until after things settle down and I plug everything back in that I realize that the internet is down. Not much I can do about that but wait.
I don't really know why it happens either except that maybe it has something to do with having DSL instead of cable. Even so the phones still work so it's just strange.