Outage

[Rik]

I would point out we have had a terrific storm here in N Wales and thunder have been out to take wife to her club and all the local petrol stations are out of action comps are out due lightening etc

It's a good habit to disconnect the router from the phone line and the mains when there is thunder around. If you get a different earth potential at the exchange to where you are (and the longer the line, the greater the chance), then the current will flow through the phone line to the lower earth potential, usually frying the router as it does so.