 Let's do a couple other geeky things and Call it a week. Shall we? So let's um Listener Joe while the weather at least in the northern hemisphere is still warm. There's people people still doing some projects outside Joe says you've talked about this numerous times in the past But now I'm building a detached garage and I'm looking to run cat six out to it after multiple lightning damage issues You Dave finally found a solution which works. What was that exactly? So The best solution and it has been recommended to me many times. I have not implemented it So this is a do as I say or do as others say not do as I do would be to run fiber Because that is not going to be susceptible to lightning strikes, right? It doesn't transmit. There's no copper So lightning it doesn't transmit across the insulated fiber line. It's because it's just fiber So you'd need to get some converters, you know to convert The fiber to ethernet and back, right? that sort of thing But and then of course you'd need to run the actual fiber cable But but that's that's it and I will say, you know, we've got fiber in the neighborhood now. That's how That's how John and I are talking. That's how I will upload the show, right? and And I was asking them about, you know, what how does how well does this work? And the guy was like, yeah, man, you're gonna be fine Like lightning cannot touch this and it's a super thin cable Your biggest your biggest issue is putting a kink in the cable But obviously if you lay it properly and and set it up the right way, then that won't then that won't be an issue If you don't want to do the fiber thing Or or do you want to know what I did? Which is sort of the same when I moved in here? There were two coax and two cat five e Cables direct burial cables run between my house and my office slash garage And that's still what's there Despite a stump grinder trying to kill my cables at one point Amazingly these four cables are run all together. I mean they're not to call them a bundle would be a little overstating But they're all buried in the same place like there was one little trench dug and we just they laid the cables in them Stump grinder caught one cable. That's it And and snapped this one ethernet cable and the other ethernet cable and the two coax survived So I was able to jump to the other ethernet cable and then since then have patched the original one So everything's all good, but um, you will you could you could spray paint Cbyd They're supposed to do that anyway And also it's a good idea if the homeowner tells you there are cables there don't dig there Maybe the homeowner might not be entirely the idiot that you think they are Uh, but you know, there you go. Yeah, I was on a uh, I was on a skype call or you know Some sort of white video call or whatever and the guys out there, you know grinding the stumps up And uh, all of a sudden I did not have the call anymore And this was when we had the internet coming into the house and across the way right now it comes into the office and goes the other direction, but um As soon as that happened, I was I knew what happened because I saw where he was and I went out like waving my arms like stop, dude so Anyway, what I cbyd, of course standing for call before you dig I didn't know what that stood for until very recently when they, uh Torrent my neighborhood to upgrade the natural gas lines Interesting. Yeah, I mean, what does it mean? And then they use and they then they use different colors for the different type of lines So I think blue is water Oh Interesting interesting Huh, so I need to find out where my well cap is. I wonder if the cbyd people would tell me Oh, seriously. All right. Anyway. Yeah, it's weird. My well cap is buried I just don't know why or how or how of that past building code Do you have a metal detect? I do and I was thinking about just using that too. Yeah, that would be the way. Yeah. Yeah Uh, all right But if you to get back to the the question at hand if you do have or decide to run Ethernet cable and you need to worry about lightning stuff You will need ethernet surge protectors some of them Like if you buy ups is Some ups has have ethernet surge protectors built into them You'll want to make certain that the surge protectors that you buy will allow 1000 megabit gigabit ethernet or faster to pass through them because some of them in Certainly older ups is would only allow 100 megabit to pass through them So you just want to eyes wide open when you're making your purchases and all that stuff I have been using the apc protect net devices over the years and I will put a link in the show notes to those Those have worked very well for me and and and have saved me many times The I have had one of them blow up over the years, but but it saved everything past it So that's you know, that's that's its job. So yeah, there you go um Any thoughts on that John before we uh before we ask answer ask We will ask and answer. I believe the final question here, which is sort of related. So No, okay Listener Brent writes and says do you have a recommendation? For a surge protector to get for my cable modem He says I currently have xfinity gigabit internet and my eris sp8200 modem seems to have had its ethernet ports Damaged from last night's storm. I'm planning on buying a new modem today Hopefully that fixes it, but I would like to make sure this doesn't happen again. So of course the protect net adapters are To are great to have to protect the ethernet side of things. However, I don't think that would have protected you here It's hard to say Whether the lightning strike came from within your network and therefore blew up the ethernet port on the router from that direction Or if it came in from the coax side And blew it up from that direction. I have had both happened to me. And so in addition to the protect net adapters or devices that we just talked about You need a coax surge protector and I will put a link Generally, I just go to amazon and buy, you know, whatever the the best one is I I found one just now So I will put that in the the show notes so you can have an example of what that is Just make sure that whatever you get goes above 1500 megahertz the ones I found go to 2500 so you're fine You just don't want to filter out the frequencies that are used by your cable modems channels So, uh, usually it really it's above a thousand. I think is the the key, but you know, these things will go much higher Um, so there you go that that should Should help you out. I hope I hope I hope