MT nightmare

It started out as just a perfectly normal afternoon thunderstorm.
Everything in our house has whatever protection it can have from UPS to
surge protectors, whatever has been recommended for protection we have done.
I had just let the dog in and was going to the office to shut down the
computers just to be safe--the storm had just started, when we had a
lightning hit the likes of which I had never heard before in the 18 years we
had lived here. The electricity never went out. My computer is still lit,
no problems, right.

Well, I did not have an internet connection and the phones were all dead.
It took a day for the phone people to get here. My server is out and will
not come back up. Power supply replaced hoping that was the major
problem--no luck. Mother board and CPU replaced. No luck. Could not find
anyone local to repair the server quickly, if at all--they are swamped with
computer repairs. So, express mailed computer to my son in Colorado (who
built it for me) $71. Modem apparently fried. New modem. Router
apparently fried--no network, new D-Link, which I haven't yet installed.
Modem still won't work. Telephone company comes and installs brand new
connection from pole to house. Modem works--2 hours later quits. Tech
support gets it working again. Now working but every few minutes I lose it,
which makes it impossible to work on client's remote connection. Clients
are burning sound files to CD so I have to go back to pickups. Telephone
company says it's not them, IP provider says it's not them. Maybe our
inside wiring. Telephone company leaves me wire to wire modem directly to
the box--won't help with routing or anything, but a temporary fix so I can
catch up work until we figure out the problem. Bob is doing that now, so
don't know yet if successful! Four days of work behind, and I had plans for
the weekend (Quilt show in Coral Gables).

Now, not only those problems. My son's Television completely blown. Two
Tivo connections completely blown. We cannot get a connection to Direct TV,
don't know what is fried there (Our TV seems to be all right, but we can
only get channel 6 (my least-watched station) without direct TV. I do not
think our homeowners policy will cover anything as there is a $2,500
deductible!!!!

If you don't hear from me for a few days guess why?

Barb C.


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    ... > Everything in our house has whatever protection it can have from UPS to ... I did not have an internet connection and the phones were all dead. ... Modem apparently fried. ... > connection from pole to house. ...
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    ... Everything in our house has whatever protection it can have from UPS to surge protectors, whatever has been recommended for protection we have done. ... Modem apparently fried. ... Telephone company comes and installs brand new connection from pole to house. ...
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