Has anyone experienced any damage from near lightning strikes on their gear at the end of the cat5? I've experienced problems in the past with ports being blown on the switches/routers and even sometimes carried through the chassis to the computers. A long run of cat5 even if it's shielded somehow always was suceptible to this. We found a nice surge protector to place on the towers designed to protect the equipment below. What's wierd is that is the stuff that usually went bad, the unit up top seldom went bad unless it was a direct hit which usually did a boatload of damage including knocking chunks of concrete out of the base of the tower near the grounds!

In any case I had a bunch of these things left over. I listed some on Ebay here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1114181708789

You can purchase them direct from mfg here:

http://www.l-com.com/surge-protector-outdoor-10-100-base-t-cat5-lightning-surge-protector

Peter - KF7PSM