Pike Electric is showing up tomorrow to install a whole house primary surge protector at the panel. My understanding is the SECO unit is at the meter and offers protection to that point. In addition to the whole house protector I will still use secondary surge protection at the outlets. This mirrors what I had in PA and it worked very well. I have Bright House and since the router is plugged into the surge protection system my only concern is if something happens through the cable and again, as I understand it, they have the responsibility for that protection. I talked to both an electrician and the cable guy about routing the cable through the surge protector and both said it would degrade the picture. Being the expert I am (I have swamp land if you believe that) I chose the whole house and secondary surge protection and will take the risk with the cable. Next investigation will be lightning rods.
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