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So I had a lightning strike on or very near to my house today. Following an ear-splitting bang, all the power went off and there was a smell of smoke from the data cupboard under the stairs.

One or both of the ethernet switches had gone bang in a big way, with some of the connected patch cables badly fried.

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Pretty much anything that was connected directly to the 24 port switch also died, including the living room TV, every Apple TV 4K...

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