Egad... I never realized that "jiga" was an officially accepted pronunciation for "giga". Apparently it even used to be the standard, though as a physics major I can say with a fair degree of certainty it's not used much anymore.mduser63 said:
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It was quick, like LIGHTNING OMG WTF FTW BTW AFK
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kyleaa said:
It did up to like $100,000 or something but the people we had to come check the T.V. and stuff said that It is a pain in the arse to get money out of and they will come up with some reason to blame us.
Dirty dirty people and their sneaky tricks of doom.
SC68Cal said:
That is indeed going to be my plan, thanks for the advice. I'm just suprised that it technically isnt under applecare.
Ah and I'm pretty sure what happened in the method of lightning traveling through the house.
lightning struck our T.V. antenna. I make this assumption as it is melted and charred, from there it traveled into the t.v. system, zapping the T.v. Reciever, sound system, Dvd player and the Tive. Tivo is plugged into the phone lines to update, goes through the phone lines into the walls, in the walls our ethernet lines are wrapped around our phone lines, it made it easier to pull the wires a while ago, it then zapped every computer's ethernet card and overload the phone box thing.
oh and the holes in the roof were right next to the antenna, but they have been repaired now. Yay!
lightning struck our T.V. antenna. I make this assumption as it is melted and charred, from there it traveled into the t.v. system, zapping the T.v. Reciever, sound system, Dvd player and the Tive. Tivo is plugged into the phone lines to update, goes through the phone lines into the walls, in the walls our ethernet lines are wrapped around our phone lines, it made it easier to pull the wires a while ago, it then zapped every computer's ethernet card and overload the phone box thing.
oh and the holes in the roof were right next to the antenna, but they have been repaired now. Yay!
I wouldn't have told them that lightning had caused the damage. When calling tech support always play dumb and tell them what doesn't work, not why you think something doesn't work. Play along with their mindless tests, and get them to replace the part under warranty. It may not be honest but it's not lying, and if you paid for the extended warranty anyways, might as well use it.
Max on Macs said:
Since he didn't mention it, one could assume that no one was hurt. Typically someone would mention that...
I assume since the OP didn't speficically mention any injuries and was asking for technical help, the assumption was that nobody was hurt. If somebody had gotten fried, one assumes there would have been some mention of that, or concern with something other than an ethernet port.Max on Macs said:
As for that last post, well, if it directly hit your antenna, your TV and anything connected directly to it was toast--UPS doesn't enter into it, and I'm not familiar with any household-grade gear you can install on an antenna that will protect connected equipment from a direct strike--that's just too much voltage to shunt to ground. Can't really blame the fancy UPS, since that's not where the hit came from--if anything, you're lucky that it didn't go back through that UPS and fry the entire house's electrical system, so it apparently did its job (just going the wrong direction).
And your Tivo/phone/network theory makes sense--you didn't say whether it burned through the insulation from the phone lines to the ethernet or just induced enough current in the network though proximity, but either would be enough to cook a network card.
No one was hurt I was alone in the house when it struck and it knocked me down the stairs but that was it. No serious injuries just a nasty bump to the head.
It didnt burn through the insulation on the wires just generated enough current to fry the network cards.
Thanks for the concern,
Penguin
It didnt burn through the insulation on the wires just generated enough current to fry the network cards.
Thanks for the concern,
Penguin
ModestPenguin said:
I'm sorry dude. Hope you get things worked out.
Every electronic I have is almost always connected to a surge protector, and when not connected to a surge protector and it's lightning, it comes uplugged. Then again (I have a notebook). Surge protectors + WiFi = Healthy safe computer.