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Lightning hit a router and cooked a PC motherboard through Ethernet

Avatar photoby Diana Marsh5 days ago

A Reddit user says a lightning strike traveled through a provider’s coaxial line, blew up a home router, and burned a motherboard through the Ethernet port, turning an ordinary home network into a very expensive conductor. The damage stopped short of the rest of the PC, which is almost impressive in the worst possible way. […]

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