Surge protection...

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Merlin

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Who knows their stuff with regards to surge/spike protection?

I'm looking at the Rectron pricelist and they list a ZyXEL RJ-11 surge protector, which I want to use for my ADSL line.

When I Googled some images of this it came up with a plugin card for the Mobo?

WtF?

How does that work? :o

Surely an RJ-11 surge protector needs to sit between the line and the router?

...also, can you recommend any surge protectors for my other kit? Speaker system, external HDD, etc. Should I get a multi-plug and chop the plug off in lieu of a kettle plug, or is that a bad idea?

Thanks, N.
 
Mikroz said:
When I Googled some images of this it came up with a plugin card for the Mobo?

WtF?

How does that work? :o

Surely an RJ-11 surge protector needs to sit between the line and the router
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I'm not clued up on surge protection, but my guess is that the card mentioned above is made to fit into your PC Case/Tower, for convenience, but doesn't touch the motherboard or anything else.

Makes slight sense to me, since your Case/Tower should be earthed already..

But I'm just guessing here...
 
Thanks chaps.

I've emailed Clearline.

The card definately plugs into the Mobo...

Link...

Maybe the phone line plugs into it, and then another runs from there to the router...
 
Mikroz said:
The card definately plugs into the Mobo...

Link....
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Am I seeing correctly - the picture in the link above has an NVIDIA logo on it? And it looks frikkin huge for a simple surge protector. Why would a surge protector need to connect to your MOBO? Why would it also need a VGA port?

The above picture looks more like a graphics card than anything else, nevermind a surge/line protector.
 
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