Are you sure it was Ethernet issue and not power mains spike? It is pretty common for storms to cause voltage spikes. This is why I have surge protection for the entire home.
Now, have you checked fuses? They may have been blown.
Lightening damage - any hope?
We had a violent electrical storm at my home a couple of days ago and some of my AV gear no longer even turns on. The damaged components are Sony Blu-ray player, Marantz AV Processor, AppleTV, Spectrum Cable box, Netgear router. It seems that the damage came in thru the Spectrum cable for my Internet service.. All of the damaged components were connected to my network via Cat6.
Curiously, the components that I had isolated with fiber converters (to lower the cable noise) were undamaged. That included my ML5505 integrated amp and my Aurender N200 streamer (thank goodness).
For the electrical geniuses out there is there any hope that the damaged components can be repaired from a spike coming in thru the ethernet cable? I'm rather surprised that these components won't even turn on.
Any insight. would be appreciated.