A direct strike could take out surge protectors and UPS, daisychained down the length of a football field.

Also this was an old fashioned modem. Witch is an old fashoned piece of silvercord 2 pair wire, connected to a wall outlet up to the phone lines, right to the machine.

No hubs no switches, there are a few surge, and UPS that have connections for RJ11 connectors you can loop the connection through but this wasen't the case.