Lightning sucks.

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.




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