We’ve lost a couple of routers and DEC phone systems over recent years, not due to direct lightning strike on our property but from a strike within a mile radius. I would guess that they were taken out either by some induction over the phone lines or some kind of local EMP.
Yup, I always switch off and unplug the system when there’s the likelihood of thunderstorms.
After that you might google your insurance policy to, check out new for old, including equivalent new replacement value.
I was covered, but it took some work to finally agree the ‘value’ of some old classic stuff.
As part of setting a static IP/subnet you may need DNS and Gateway IPs too - this may or may not be the reason why Tidal isn’t connecting.
Make sure your static IP is outside the DHCP scope of the ISP router otherwise you may end up with a clash of IP addresses. There’s usually a small block of addresses assigned for this purpose.
All sorted. One of the advantages of the app, that it significantly reduces the number of contacts with the server also meant that it takes a little longer to re-establish the connection to Tidal. Did so after about 15 minutes with no input from me.
Ethernet should be disconnected as well.
Spoke too soon. Tidal has reconnected but is juddering very badly for no reason that’s obvious to me.
This, plus making sure that indirect lightning damage is insured, not just direct strike
Hmm. Logged back into Tidal and had the same judderung on the same track. Switched to an EP and all 4 tracks played fine as did all of Van’s Moondance. Switched to some World Party and the judder/glitching is back. Had no issues in 7 months with this bridge and now a series.
Any thoughts.
I wonder if your system has selected a different wireless channel after power up which is perhaps not ideal and limiting bandwidth?
For some reason when I login to the Vonets admin it showed my home network twice. I was logged on to the slower of the two on 6 so I switched to the other on 11 and of course it’s not real and both the bridge and Innuos are now offline. So I have to once again pull the bridge out; attach to my PC; reset it and attach it to the working network and see if it’s possible as you say to switch channels and see what happens.
Mightily irritating.
I used to really love storms and didn’t resent powering down etc. I’m beginning to change my mind.
Good call. The router had defaulted to channel 6. Moved to 7 and all is terrific again thank you.
When lightning stuck my house my arcam cd and a vhs were written off, I always disconnect Naim gear in a thunderstorm
You should not really use any channels other than 1,.6 or 11 for 2.4ghz WiFi all others get interfere with the adjacent channels as they have overlap with each other 1, 6, 11 don’t overlap.
Indeed, I had a router, Airport Extreme and Unitiserve written off by a lightning strike through the phone line. The heavy hardwood cupboard they lived in exploded, the room filled with smoke and the BT socket blew off the wall. It’s amazing how much current can be carried down such a thin copper wire.
Our house is in an exposed location with the phone line above roof level, so we are somewhat prone to lightning damage. After that incident I replaced all my network cables with fibre to help isolate the Hifi and other peripheral devices. The next strike we had killed the phone instead of the router, so I’d like to think my strategy might have worked, but who knows.
Heard a rumble of thunder about 10 minutes ago. Powered down and unplugged the hifi, better safe than sorry. Had another rumble which nearly rattled the windows! No music until later as its raining hard and rumbling all around!! Any member reading this thread take note of the warnings and advice.
Looks like all the lightning is in a system heading ENE that at moment is between Bristol & Tewkesbury.
Whether the overlap matters really depends on who’s doing what around you. In my case someone else’s network was showing up on 6 and Qobuz wouldn’t even play. Move to 7 and nothing is being impinged upon and Qobuz plays like a dream.
Our Livebox blew up during very spectacular storm on Thursday night .
Orange France delivered new improved version ( gratis ) this morning …all now working well with much improved speeds.
Regards
Awaiting our next round of storms at 9pm so I’m getting hours in whilst I can. However, our last 3 forecasts of storms came to nought so…