I have added a wifi repeater to the outside of my home so that my wife can watch her critter cams. It is a POE device that runs all the way back to my router.
Would like to install this surge protector but I'm getting conflicting information on grounding it. My installation is to the side of my house, not a metal pole.
Lowest effort options first, I can:
A. Place the protector inside near where the CAT5 enters the basement. Ground to a junction box that I installed that is grounded to the house panel and rod.
B. Ground internally to a water pipe or externally to the outdoor spigot.
C. Drive a ground rod where the cable exits the house and ground to it.
D. Repeat C and also bond to to the pre-existing home ground rod. (Least preferable option, rods would be on opposite corners of house.)
Wifi repeater is one story up, and the cable runs under a metal gutter in one place. House is two stories.
Lightning protection is my concern. Direct strike, all bets are off no matter what you do, as I understand it. Given the location, figure it's unlikely to get a direct strike. However, that long cable and the gutter could easily act as an antenna and push a surge into my home network where I have NAS, server, several computers wired to the router.
Option C and mounting it to a metal pole don't seem much different to me. It does violate code. Option D is expensive and a royal pain in the ass.
You think option A is good enough for an indirect strike? Is there a better way to do this or a different device?
For indirect strikes, option A is decent but dont forget to add a surge protector at your router/switch end too - creating a protection at both cable ends has saved my home server setup multiple times during storm season.