Protectnet Modem Surge Protection

by APC

Product Details

Product Manual [132kb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches ; 5.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006BBGS
• Item model number: PTEL2
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 21, 2002

Product Description

Surge Suppressors, APC, ProtectNet 2-line Telephone, PTEL2

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This device has been protecting our phone line attached equipement for more than a year, June 20, 2010

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Steve Luce (Miami, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Protectnet Modem Surge Protection (Personal Computers)

We live in a very phone line hostile environment where we get frequent and violent lightning storms. Our phone line is unprotected by our telephone company. This device has saved us multiple times. DSL works flawlessly. I really like this product.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works, October 14, 2010

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S. Mayo - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Protectnet Modem Surge Protection (Personal Computers)

I've had one of these on my phone line, where it enters the house, for years. A nearby lightning strike recently fried it (and fried a phone wire somewhere outside my house, according to the phone company), but my phones survived. Needless to say, I've bought another.

Money well spent if you have anything other than a couple of very cheap phones. Absolutely essential if you have a phone line that connects in any way to a computer.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hope it works when the time comes, January 27, 2010

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B. Faulkner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Protectnet Modem Surge Protection (Personal Computers)

Though we have two whole-house surge protection devices (redundant system), the phone line is a backdoor into much of our equipment. Not remembering where I got my old device, and not being sure it was still operational, I purchaced the APC Protectnet PTEL-2 to get us current with telephone/DSL protection. It installed easily enough.

I do think I'll be researching hardwire versions for the main panel, with some type of LED indicator that it is actually operational. This will work for now and, if I'm reading the documentation correctly, if this device takes a strike it will disconnect the phone line. In other words if the phone dies, the device did its job and I'll have to buy another one.