I swapped a customer from an old school WISP recently, didn't replace the unshielded cable...in a heavy lightning area. Storm came in and we lost everything...router radio, everything. Swapped it out for shielded with this method and the next storm only lost the radio and POE. I've seen this dozens of times. The Dragonwave training seminar also said shielded to the POE and unshielded out. I haven't lost a switchport to lightning in two years. Keeping it outside the building is definitely the way to go for direct strikes but for neat field strikes the static will discharge to ground and that is usually the Ethernet port.
On Jan 6, 2015 6:30 PM, <cstann...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh and if a customer is a huge PITA or doesn't want to pay, the answer is > not to keep trying to please them, it's "sorry we couldn't please you, > here's a refund for the install (if they're not in arrears) and the phone > number of our (least liked) competitor". > ------------------------------ > *From: * Trevor Bough <trevorbo...@gmail.com> > *Sender: * "Af" <af-boun...@afmug.com> > *Date: *Wed, 7 Jan 2015 00:21:09 +0000 > *To: *<af@afmug.com> > *ReplyTo: * af@afmug.com > *Subject: *[AFMUG] New WISP > > Hi guys, long time listener, first time caller. I'm looking at starting a > new rural WISP and was wondering if you guys could share some of the things > you wish you had known when you started out. Things to absolutely stay away > from, things that you didn't think of first, but made your life 10x easier, > etc. Any info would be greatly appreciated! >
