2007-07-16 06:36:37 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Copper wires (i.e. your telephone lines) are a nice conductor of electricity. You don't have to be using the computer for lightning to strike.
I've known it to happen twice in my family. Two computers fried.
Now all my computers use a UPS w/protection on the network connection and I have separate surge protector for where the broadband comes into the house. So the network connections are double protected.
2007-07-16 06:47:21 · answer #1 · answered by I Like Stories 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try lightning. Thunder is only the sound lightning makes when it moves through the air. If you are on the internet lightning can affect your computer if it strikes too close. That is why you buy a surge protector to plug your computer into.
2007-07-16 14:03:17 · answer #2 · answered by wildside.media 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you can get an electrical surge through a phone line during a storm. It won't hurt a person, but will fry the computer. And you don't even have to be on the internet... or have the computer turned on! (Use a surge protector with phone line capability.)
2007-07-16 13:40:37 · answer #3 · answered by conehead 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thunder is just sound, it can't harm your computer.
2007-07-16 13:42:02 · answer #4 · answered by scott h 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋