Should I put in Ethernet Surge protectors and if so which ones?

[oosik]

I have my protection on the power side. APC surge and standby power supply. Been thru a whole bunch of lightning storms/short power outages and never had anything come in thru either of my dish receivers. Maybe just lucky - but that means lucky for 40+ years.

 

[mikester]

Very interesting - I looked up the instructions for the device.

I had not run across the term "drain wire" before.
BUT I have had to drain "wires"!
I had a cable TV run of RG59 installed by the cable company. It ran from across the street, over a pole, thence to the corner of my basement, about 100' total.
We started having problems with TV reception, cable guys came out said everything looked good, blamed it on my interior runs. It got worse after rains.
I disconnected their exterior run from the outside and it started emitting a stream of water like a 3yr old urinating.
Apparently whoever strung the line from the pole didn't put in loops at the pole and the line filled with water. So until I could get the cable company to replace the cable I'd just go out and drain the cable wire occasionally.

You will like my wire drain storey - I have 200A service cables buried 300 feet from the pole transformer to my house basement. One day my son said "Dad, why is there water coming out the breaker panel"? I thought what the frick?! Opened the panel and found water going drip, drip, drip from inside the insulated wire onto my 200A disconnect.

I called hydro and they showed up within the hour on a Saturday afternoon. Problem turned out to be the way the underground tables were terminated at the pole. Instead of putting a drip loop and the ends of the wires pointing down, the electrician terminated the conductors pointing up. Five years after the initial install enough water had accumulated in the wire to start a steady drip of water into my house 300 feet away. At the pole the lineman cut a splice on the bottom of my power lines and water started pouring out!

He said he'd run into this once before at a factory with a 1200A service with wires thick as my arm and water was pouring in the building through the conductors. He put in a proper drip loop and re-terminated the pole wires with the conductors facing down. No more problems since.

 

[Jchonline]

I'm FINALLY in line to get Fiber with either 100/100 or 1000/1000 up/down speeds at my house in Mississippi.
One of my plans is to run wireless from my house to my workshops, which are about 100 yards away. For that I bought a pair of Ubiquiti U6 LR's to send and receive from the house to the workshops.
Since these will be outside (under eaves) what are the TBN recommendations for Ethernet Surge protectors?
like this

I would not.

 

[cqaigy2]

I would not.

In polite society, one would give an option to use.