We live where lightning strikes nearby hundreds of times each summer, but not
everything in the house dies every 18-months—just my Obihai stuff.
The latest OBi200 won't hang up. Did the 2-hours of troubleshooting, testing resetting, testing more... I'm an I.T. guy, so having to do this stuff at home after doing it all day at work really burns.
My OBi200 still works great for some seconds after reboot, but once the line stays open it's "off hook" and can't be hung up. No way to terminate a call, no way to get a dial tone back once it times out.
Anyway, I'm thinking I could throw more money to this feeble stuff and buy my fifth one, and this time get the wifi adapter too. Maybe surges from the stormy weather will stop frying them? One less copper connection... or maybe it's not the lightning...