Storms and Routers

WoZZeR · 14 Jun 2007 at 22:27

Damn, all this talk of surge and UPS's etc and my D-Link has just been zapped by a huge storm.

Now, I've linked the yukky Orange supplied USB modem up and I now have ADSL again.

How do I get the VMWare to recognise it and allow me to communicate with my SMP client?

Or am I up poop creek until I get a replacement?

Is storm damage covered by the incredibly restrictive warranties?

EDIT: Changed the ethernet setting in VMWare to 'NAT' seems to work, will leave at that until someone suggests otherwise.

SiriusB · 15 Jun 2007 at 00:22

Call them and see what they say. Or use their help & support website.

Stelly · 15 Jun 2007 at 00:34

WoZZeR said:
Damn, all this talk of surge and UPS's etc and my D-Link has just been zapped by a huge storm.

Now, I've linked the yukky Orange supplied USB modem up and I now have ADSL again.

How do I get the VMWare to recognise it and allow me to communicate with my SMP client?

Or am I up poop creek until I get a replacement?

Is storm damage covered by the incredibly restrictive warranties?

EDIT: Changed the ethernet setting in VMWare to 'NAT' seems to work, will leave at that until someone suggests otherwise.

You have no chance what so ever to claim for that damage.... its unforseen and an act of god... so no chance

Stelly

Peter-B · 15 Jun 2007 at 01:03

Your contents insurance should cover the damage
but I expect you'll have to pay the the 1st £50 or more,
depends on your policy, which might be more than its worth!

18 months ago I had a dual P3 struck by lightning, :mad:

they replacing it with a 2.6Ghz 775 celeron.
I said B#!!##ks so after much wrangling they paid for a pair of 2.8 Xeons and mobo,
no a bad swop for the p3 rig & it only cost me £50!

Best of luck.

SiriusB · 15 Jun 2007 at 01:19

What if you don't believe in God? :eek:

Act of Dave*?

Mr B - I would fully mask out that sweary. It's the rules. Just replace it with

**** that

*Chosen as everyone knows someone called Dave!

Berserker · 15 Jun 2007 at 14:11

Everyone around here at least knows someone called Rich too, so you could have used that.

Anyway I suspect if it's just the router that's gone, claiming will cost you several times more than it saves - not only an excess but a premium hike as well if you have no claims (or even if you don't).

PS - we had a brown-out here at 12:36:09, so says my atomically correct UPS.

WoZZeR · 15 Jun 2007 at 15:05

Chatting to the locals today, the zapping of routers is commonplace in the continental storms, they just unplug them whenever there is a storm.

So, I shall just buy a cheapo one for use over here and do the same.

Berserker · 15 Jun 2007 at 18:04

Aye. UK phone lines have some protection but that's no guarantee (my grandparents cordless phone got zapped a few years ago). I don't know if the French system has anything similar.

Cob · 15 Jun 2007 at 18:52

My surge protector has rj45 sockets.

My phone line goes into it and my line filter comes out of it.

oceaness · 15 Jun 2007 at 21:10

Cob said:
My surge protector has rj45 sockets.

My phone line goes into it and my line filter comes out of it.

Ditto.

My UPS provides 6 surge sockets 3 of which are battery as well it also protects the phone line and provides two sockets for a modem and telephone

Only problem is:

I've been testing it. I know my media centre draws 186 watts at its max...
The UPS is said to supply 210 watts yet when the power goes off the PC does too and the UPS just beeps a bit.

Need to find the receipt

Berserker · 16 Jun 2007 at 00:07

Sorry to say that UPS simply isn't up to the job. Wouldn't get less than 250w for a 186w load. Unless, that is, it's old and the battery has died.

oceaness · 16 Jun 2007 at 08:48

Berserker said:
Sorry to say that UPS simply isn't up to the job. Wouldn't get less than 250w for a 186w load. Unless, that is, it's old and the battery has died.

No it's pretty new.

How can you rate something to last 15 mins at full load when at full load it doesn't actually work thus meaning that 210w couldn't possibly be it's full load :confused:

Isn't that false advertising... or rather just plain lying? :eek:

I will test it with something else as well.

WoZZeR · 16 Jun 2007 at 10:25

All the manufacturers seem to use KVA and VA to sell stuff when the actual RMS wattage is often lower, the difference eludes me but it is very misleading.

oceaness · 16 Jun 2007 at 12:07

WoZZeR said:
All the manufacturers seem to use KVA and VA to sell stuff when the actual RMS wattage is often lower, the difference eludes me but it is very misleading.

A good document from APC:

PDF Format

It explains that whilst a computer may fall within the va rating, the watt rating is actually about 60% lower and has such it fails.

Still doesn't explain mine. It's rated at 350va / 210w and my PC is no where near that :confused: