So I accidentally left the pc on during my trip, and this Ethernet cord MELTED in to the motherboard slot. All we know is that something was wrong with the power lines outside hooking up to our outlet that the router was using, and heated everything connected to the router and the router itself. Still, free router replacement and 500 bucks isn’t terrible considering I just electrical taped that up and used an adapter to Ethernet instead.
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That’s quite the failure mode
Was the pc totaled?
…is that a USB-C adaptor directly connected to a USB-A port?
I took out a thumb drive that was just seated in the USB port for a couple hours unused (after uploading only a few docs). That thing was HOT. I wonder if I need to be conscious of it actually melting something that isn’t hard plastic.
Downloading porn so hard and fast ya melted the ethernet port. Thats wild.
Actual Power over Ethernet happened to go through the PC
A lot of people don’t realize that surges can come through ethernet too. And even less people have their ethernet on a surge protector. My Plex server has the ethernet cable running through my UPS so its protected from surges from that too. Ive got too much $$$ in HDDs to let them get ruined because they screwed up while running wires down the street. You definitely got lucky it didn’t fry the whole PC.
This isnt how firewalls work
Was the upgrade to higher downloads speed worth that BLAZING FAST ethernet?
Thankfully my mainline UPS has both coaxial and Ethernet surge protection.
how much hentai were you downloading! jfc lol
You must have LIGHTNING fast internet, it melts everything in its path! ⚡🔥
When I was a teenager I saved up my money and bought a mac computer 🖥️ there was a bad thunderstorm and my Ethernet stopped working but WiFi worked, I took it back in under warranty and the guy chuckled saying it’s a good thing it was under warranty because it would have cost like 1200 to fix, more than half the cost of the thing ! This motivates me to get an Ethernet protector now that I see this post
Yooo someone tried to hack you REALLY hard 😉
MJ-45’nt
I’d rather have ED than this happen to me.
**Actual Electrician here (albeit not American).**
Everyone saying its Surge Damage is wrong.
It seems like lost Neutral connection (TN), this leads to Current usually being on Neutral now flowing through Earthed connections like the Shielded Ethernet Cable.
Your Mainboard and PC are prob fine bc Current was only flowing through the Metal Casing and not the Components.
I`m not familier with the Laws and terms that apply at your location but i would seek out compensation if the fault occurred before the utility meter (responsibility and Property of utility comp.)
Gigawatt ethernet
We had a storm a few years back and we had a lightening strike outside the house which only affected the ethernet port on my MB, everything else was fine but I had to buy an internal card to get access to the internet again. Craziest thing I’ve witnessed in recent history
This is why you need a good quality anti virus, it stops the infection leaking out the Ethernet cables.
Fried my tv like that after a thunderstorm. Sucks…
Damn, choom, someone fried your PC over the net
Download speeds were at 5090 Gb/s
Internet was too fast.
New fear unlocked
It was convertet to a thunderbolt port