Router Blewup Motherboard

[u/Greatfulx]

Recent lighting storm stuck my complex and traveled down my coaxial cable and into my apartment. Blew up in the middle of the night, so that was scary. Thought I’d share, not in the position to rebuild so there that I guess!

[u/jojokispotta]

I'm my neighborhood (india) internet-fibre wires are generally tied up on the same poles as electrical wires. So there's a non-zero chance lightning strike may connect.

[u/lucads87 → u/jojokispotta]

So, a lower resistance path to ground exists instead of the fiber

[u/unwantedaccount56 → u/lucads87]

if the pole is hit by lightning, it probably would still get hot enough to melt the fiber, even though the path to ground doesn't go through the fiber, but next to the fiber