Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com

Miner protection offered by KnC would be a huge plus.

So today I'm thinking about the possibility of my Mercury getting fried from lightening. I recall a Presario that was destroyed by lightening. The RJ-45 was molten copper at the motherboard. The power in jack was blackened. The power brick was dead. Here in the US a home will usually have two phases of 120VAC relative to neutral and neutral is tied to ground in the service and then ground to a ground-rod driven into the ground properly at the service and the service has only those two phases coming in from the electric utility. Perhaps the power company asked the cable company to pay a fee for connecting to their ground, was refused and got cut. So, the jolt of lightening came in via the cable, thru the cable modem to the RJ-45 ethernet connection, out the power-in jack thru the power brick trying to get to neutral in the 120VAC outlet which is tied to ground in the service. If the computer was using Wifi it wouldn't have fried. They should call it WhyFry. So, I was thinking about my Mercury. Since it has an operating system I'd need do something like take a laptop and configure its RJ-45 as the downlink of a router and the laptop's wifi as the uplink. My very first router was an older system with multiple ethernet cards running either Slink or Potato. That I recall was not for me an easy thing to do. I wonder if it's any easier with Wheezy. I'd probably take a communication penalty in metrics.

Think I'll try cable box -> 802.11 linksys wireless router -> (wireless) -> bridge -> my regular network routing. I'll simply be unplugging my regular network routing uplink RJ-45 from the 802.11 and putting the bridge in place of the uplink cable, the uplink cable then going the bridge. My entire regular network will then not be wired to the cable box. This instead of wifi on each of the miners. No threat of molten RJ45 copper and lesser fried power in on boards.

Well, bridge isn't what I want. Having two E900 Linksys routers, looking at the config I see "bridge" offered as an uplink option. Trying that I lost the network for a while. Seems bridge as they see it is taking the uplink and disabling it, then allowing the downlink ports and the wireless to be connected as if connecting a high speed switch. There isn't a capability of *wireless* uplink to the upstream router. If, as their example shows, there is still a hardwire ethernet link then I don't have wireless isolation of the downlink router.

Which is the correct forum for this? I'm only doing this because the KnC will be the highest cost device on my network.