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I recently moved into a new house (one house down the street, nonetheless). A week or so before we moved in, lightning struck the huge cottonwood tree in the backyard. Both the previous owners and my wife and I were gone when it happened. A neighbor said there was St. Elmo's Fire all over the place -it even popped the cover off the cable box in the opposite corner of the yard like a rocket and landed in the neighbor's yard. The tree is fine, since it was raining, it just popped strips of bark off from the instant steam.

Next door at the old house, my iMac was off, but my cable modem and airport were plugged in and on. Ever since then, the modem looked like it worked, but the PC link light doesn't come on -and the airport looks like it's working fine, but it's not seeing the modem. It sends full signals to both computers, sees both computers and does everything else just fine. Is there a way to test to see if the ethernet and WiFi ports are fried?

I ended up buying my own cable modem and same thing -airport no see, but does everything else like it's fine. I've had my tech guy at work look at the airport, he reset it to factory defaults in case I just needed to set itself to the new modem. So, right now, I have an ethernet cable going straight from the cable modem to the iMac for internet until I get this fixed.

I have no clue what else to do, and i wanted to ask you guys before I take it in and have to pay for them to tell me it's fried or just me being stupid.

Please help!!

Thanks!