DSL/Computer help

[Lee]

This has been one heck of a week for me as well as last week. Hubby & I were on vacation last week, came back from a day in Atlantic City & found out a big storm hit. It knocked out our phone line (lightning hit). Took out our cordless phone, 13" TV & DSL modem or so I thought. (No Internet at home for over a week. Glad I have it at work or I'd go crazy.) Verizon sent another DSL modem, but it's not working either. My technical question is this, could it really be their modem or could something have happened to the card in my computer? The computer was plugged into a power surge & turned off. The modem was off & unplugged. The phone line was hooked up & the ethernet cable was hooked up to the DSL modem. When we finally got phone line Friday afternoon, the ethernet light was off when it's usually on & Verizon said that the modem was bad. I even tried USB connection with a new cable. It seems kinds of funny that the modem they sent was bad though I guess it's possible. Does anyone have any idea about this? They are sending another one, but if this doesn't work, then I'm wondering about damage to my computer.

Thanks,

Lee