[CLUE-Tech] phoneline cards

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Monday 13 September 2004 06:12 pm, Nate Duehr wrote:
> Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> > I am thinking about getting a phoneline card instead of wireless
> > router + wireless cards for a home network.  Does anyone have one  of
> > these working with Linux?
>
> I would have one other issue with the phoneline cards... Colorado being
> the 3rd highest lightning state in the country... I don't want a nearby
> strike to have direct access to the PC's internal busses.
>
> Having the external router gives the lightning something else to blow up
> first, before it can attempt to get to your expensive computers.  ;-)

This sounds like the same kind of reasoning why I won't use anything but 
external modems...		:-)