/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1664124
>to put it another way you discovered that probably every other person in the world uses some shitty knockoff like this and literally nobody ever has had a problem before. its almost as if electrical surges aren't a big problem. or even exist at all.....

Careful with that thought. I lost the onboard Ethernet adapter on my motherboard last month during a thunderstorm. Power went out three times, 5 minutes intervals on and off. Third time power went back: no Internet. No network adapter on Device Manager. Did a whole day of troubleshooting, no success. It's dead. I had to buy an off-board PCIe Ethernet card to get my Internet back and, once the card arrived, I did. The supposed surge probably came through the coaxial data cable, but if that was the case I find it weird that the modem is still working perfectly. Who knows what really happened. Could be related to the thunderstorm or not.

My country is top dog when it comes to lightning and surges:
"In particular, lightning forecasting is very important for Brazil due to the large incidence of lightning in the country. Every year Brazil has experienced about 50 millions of ground lightning strikes (Pinto 2009). This number puts Brazil in the top of the list of countries in terms of lightning incidence in the world, followed by the Republic of Congo in Africa and the United States of America. As a result of the large incidence of flashes, on average, 120 people are killed by lightning annually in Brazil. In addition, lightning causes more than one billion dollars in losses every year in the country (Pinto 2009). Brazil is the seventh country in terms of lightning fatalities." - Pinto Junior, Osmar et al. "A 24-Hour Lightning Forecast System In Brazil." Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management 7.4 (2015): 396-397. Web. 11 Aug. 2019.