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Lost Internet (lightening) -- all else fine..?

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EastCoastFlyer

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Aug 13, 2006
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North Florida and Northern Delaware
Well, here's the deal. While away on vacation we had a lightening strike close to the house. Several neighbors had near total appliance destruction -- one even had the kids battery-powered toys turn on by themselves... All I seem to have lost is my iMac's ability to communicate with our high-speed cable modem. Comcast was at the house today and they tested the line-in plus several modems, all of which were fine. The problem appears to be in the iMac. Everything else about the machine is perfect -- just no internet connection.

Not being much of a tech wizard, I have no idea what might have been fried, how much repair might cost, and how long I might be without my precious Mac... any ideas??? Thanks (sadly lugging my Windows laptop home from work...)
 
How are you connecting to the modem? Cable or wireless? If you are using a cable you might be able to use the wireless connection still. So getting a wireless router would be a cheaper solution than repairing your iMac.
But then again, the airport may be borked as well.
 
rainydays said:
How are you connecting to the modem? Cable or wireless? If you are using a cable you might be able to use the wireless connection still. So getting a wireless router would be a cheaper solution than repairing your iMac.
But then again, the airport may be borked as well.
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Was connected via cable directly to the iMac. Actually had an Airport lite that I bought in order to send signal to my laptop when I work on the back porch -- but the signal strength and quality was so poor that I gave the thing away...

So how much am I looking at? Is it a card or something more??

Thanks!
 
EastCoastFlyer said:
Was connected via cable directly to the iMac. Actually had an Airport lite that I bought in order to send signal to my laptop when I work on the back porch -- but the signal strength and quality was so poor that I gave the thing away...

So how much am I looking at? Is it a card or something more??

Thanks!
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If you're talking about the iMac in your sig, should'nt it have an Airport card in it already :confused: ... in that case you'd need a router, preferably the new Airport Extreme [wireless /n capability] :)

EDIT : Also, if you get that, be sure to get the $2 Wireless-N enabler from Apple. It'll be worth it!
 
EastCoastFlyer said:
Well, here's the deal. While away on vacation we had a lightening strike close to the house. Several neighbors had near total appliance destruction -- one even had the kids battery-powered toys turn on by themselves... All I seem to have lost is my iMac's ability to communicate with our high-speed cable modem. Comcast was at the house today and they tested the line-in plus several modems, all of which were fine. The problem appears to be in the iMac. Everything else about the machine is perfect -- just no internet connection.

Not being much of a tech wizard, I have no idea what might have been fried, how much repair might cost, and how long I might be without my precious Mac... any ideas??? Thanks (sadly lugging my Windows laptop home from work...)
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Call your home insurance. Mine paid for a new Macintosh when my iMac was fried by lightning (according to the insurance guy, they had to pay for about 200 computers that night).
 
classof2011 said:
If you're talking about the iMac in your sig, should'nt it have an Airport card in it already :confused:
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Sorry for the confusion -- I used to have the Airport router (not the extreme)-- didn't perform well enough so I gave it away. So yes, my iMac has the card -- I'm asking about the repair of the line-in to which the cable was directly connected at the time of the hit.

Insurance won't work for this one -- other than the internet connection, the thing works perfectly. They won't total the machine for that kind of damage...
 
lightning is an act of god, out of warranty :D

get a cheap wireless router. i think the apple routers are kind of ripoffs unless you need airtunes.
 
The End of the Story...

All's well that ends well... I made an appointment at the Genius Bar at the local Apple Store for Saturday morning. The fix required replacement of the logic board (an $800 fix). The iMac was still under warrenty, so there was no charge and it was ready in less than 24 hours. I was back online by noon Sunday. Truely a positive repair experience and a better than expected outcome...
 
EastCoastFlyer said:
All's well that ends well... I made an appointment at the Genius Bar at the local Apple Store for Saturday morning. The fix required replacement of the logic board (an $800 fix). The iMac was still under warrenty, so there was no charge and it was ready in less than 24 hours. I was back online by noon Sunday. Truely a positive repair experience and a better than expected outcome...
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I assume you left the lightning part out? ;)
 
However, mildly confusing that they have an $800 'part' in a $600 computer.

I'd just buy the $600 computer and have lots of spare parts to sell on eBay and get half my money back.
 
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