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[azarius69]

I would just like to hear recommendations on a lightning protector for the coax cable.
today we had a bad storm, there was a loud pop and my Motorola modem, vonage box
and my dlink router all wiped out, there is already a surge protector on the outlet so i am thinking it came through the coax. the dlink wireless still worked but when i plug it into the modem, the modem won't recognize it is connected, when i plug the pc directly in the modem, the light comes on, so i ordered a new dlink router and got a new modem, and tried plugging it in again and still modem won't recognize it, just wanted to hear any suggestions, i never seen it go past the modem
that happened once before but only took out the modem.

[Demonized]

You can buy surge protectors with ADSL and coax input in almost any electronics store. Maybe your surge protector just was not equiped for a surge like that (cheap ones...). There is a max. surge mentioned on the packaging usually. But there's no way of predicting which one will hold (depends on the unpredictable input  )