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Re: How to prevent broken ethernet port on DS
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Originally Posted by charrisTTI View Post
Over the past 30 years, I have never seen a network card, hub, switch, or router fail due to static discharge. I have seen plenty of static discharges, which have done plenty of damage to other components, but the ethernet connections seem to always survive. This years DS being the exception.
Just as a note, one of the ports on our linksys 5-port switch did die due to ESD towards the end of NJ. Luckily, we could just plug this into another port and it worked fine.
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