I'd have to ask the resident boffin about wires or fibre, but I know there was some work being done in the neighbourhood a year or so ago to connect fibre so maybe that is all done. By the way, Mr Boffin confessed he had forgotten to reconnect the surge protection after he had done some reshuffling of some of the connections so I can confidently blame him. :-D

I swear to god that it sounded like the lightning bolt was about a metre to my right, just outside the window, and the thunder was within a few seconds of the bolt so it was extremely close. If there had been any lightning and thunder before that I would have turned off the computer, but it was a bolt out of the blue, no prior warning. We couldn't see any evidence of where it struck except that there was a slight smoky smell outside.