Here's what I did as I have lighten'n stikes constantly in my area(the woods). First, I finally cut down the tree that seemed to promote stikes everytime. On top of this, I used surge protectors of these sorts:
strip surge protector
AC outlet dual protectors, cover oulets(pass thru)
single AC cord protectors for each plug
line conditioner with UPS
I didn't install a circuit breaker type protector as its working good w/o one. One thing I looked for are those surge protectors that have a LED showing "active" so if I got hit, the LED was out and needed replaceemnt. The whole purpose is to protect the system and stero, so it was less costly to repair/replace. With the above protection, on 1 hit, the hit had to go through 4 protection levels, even if it wiped out all, usually the system damage was nil or none. trust me, it was worse before that. Of course when I could, I unplgged the system during storms.
tada -----Willy ![]()
Lightening struck very close to our Dallas, TX home the day before we left on vacation. Although we had name brand surge protectors on each computer, lightening fried the cable modem and NIC in one computer and the other will not pass the Power On Self Test (POST) so may have lost motherboard there.
Question: What is the BEST surge rotection for situation like this?
Thanks,

Chowhound
Comic Vine
GameFAQs
GameSpot
Giant Bomb
TechRepublic