As a Dr. Who fan, I was immediately positive towards a device from a Bad Wolf brand. I always want cool companies to do well, especially if they have cool products to boot.

I was looking around for this exact thing. Last year, we had a lightning strike near the house and all of the networking electronics fried as well as a couple computer systems. Some other things throughout the house as well, but apparently a spike hit that one circuit the hardest and nothing survived it.

There were UPC's and surge protector strips and nothing mattered.

This is, hopefully, the solution to protect against that happening again. Of course, we won't know unless it happens and it's only happened once so far this lifetime, so we may never know. But it does give a lot of peace of mind that the thousands of dollars of equipment replaced are at least protected from a repeat disaster. Or at least that we have installed the best option we could find.

The unit itself is light and feels robust - you could drop it and it wouldn't matter. Of course, because there is only one outlet, you have to put all of your gear on a power strip (we have a conditioner strip) into the single outlet, and otherwise isolated (ie. don't run network cables to other machines plugged in elsewhere).

Anyway, this is a unique product. You won't know if it works until something very bad happens, and we all hope that never happens.

Personally, very happy we have it. I wish it were not so expensive, but it is protecting a much larger amount of gear, so it is definitely justified.