Monday nights thunderstorm took its casualties and fried my router. BT are supplying a replacement, to arrive today fingers crossed.
What mechanism cooks them, a surge of input from the mains or a surge down the phone line? Both?
I suspect phone line because no other devices have suffered although the rcd did trip.
What is the best way forward to protect from a repeat? Surge bars and battery back up? Keep a spare router? Or is it as simple as the 1970s TV solution of unplugging the inputs during a thunderstorm?
It all makes working from home rather difficult, these things never happen in quiet times do they.