So does anybody make a router with a fan?

I've owned a whole series of Dlink routers, and now whole series of
Linksys. They all tend to lock up (sometimes after a few days, sometimes
after a few hours). I think the problem is that they overheat too
easily, especially if they are wireless. It would really do these
companies good if they put cooling fans inside their routers from now
on, despite the noise.

Yousuf Khan


Yousuf Khan

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:30:38 -0500, Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I've owned a whole series of Dlink routers, and now whole series of
>Linksys. They all tend to lock up (sometimes after a few days, sometimes
>after a few hours). I think the problem is that they overheat too
>easily, especially if they are wireless. It would really do these
>companies good if they put cooling fans inside their routers from now
>on, despite the noise.
>
> Yousuf Khan

Interesting rant. Over all of the years I've had one, I can count the number
of times a router has wedged on me on one finger. The Linksys I've been
running for roughly 5 years sits in the middle of a stack with an 8-port
switch below and a modem on top - and that stack is on top of a UPS, jammed
between a tall-tower peecee and an 8-drive SCSI raid enclosure. All under a
desk, so it gets a bit toasty at times. And this router has *never* wedged...

I'd suggest removing the blankie from on top of your router ;-)

/daytripper

daytripper wrote:
> Interesting rant. Over all of the years I've had one, I can count the number
> of times a router has wedged on me on one finger. The Linksys I've been
> running for roughly 5 years sits in the middle of a stack with an 8-port
> switch below and a modem on top - and that stack is on top of a UPS, jammed
> between a tall-tower peecee and an 8-drive SCSI raid enclosure. All under a
> desk, so it gets a bit toasty at times. And this router has *never* wedged...
>
> I'd suggest removing the blankie from on top of your router ;-)

For me, I've moved everything as far apart as possible to facilitate
airflow between the router and the DSL modem. The DSL modem itself never
locks up, it is extremely reliable, but I think the routers are
overloaded by traffic. Not only are they routing traffic to the Internet
between three PCs and one game console, but the three PCs are often
using Internet heavily simultaneously (big file transfers), as well as
file transfers among each other.

Yousuf Khan

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:30:38 -0500, Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)> put
finger to keyboard and composed:

>I've owned a whole series of Dlink routers, and now whole series of
>Linksys. They all tend to lock up (sometimes after a few days, sometimes
>after a few hours). I think the problem is that they overheat too
>easily, especially if they are wireless. It would really do these
>companies good if they put cooling fans inside their routers from now
>on, despite the noise.
>
> Yousuf Khan

I've added heatsinks to the major chips in my D-Link ADSL modem/router
and I've punched out all the ventilation slots. I've also drilled
several vent holes above the GlobeSpan Virata chip. I've only ever had
the modem lock up a couple of times, but on those occasions it was
after a very wet spell, so it may have been a result of physical line
conditions.

- Franc Zabkar
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On Feb 5, 2:38 pm, Franc Zabkar <fzab...@iinternode.on.net> wrote:
> I've added heatsinks to the major chips in my D-Link ADSL modem/router
> and I've punched out all the ventilation slots. I've also drilled
> several vent holes above the GlobeSpan Virata chip. I've only ever had
> the modem lock up a couple of times, but on those occasions it was
> after a very wet spell, so it may have been a result of physical line
> conditions.

I don't think moisture would be a problem here, if anything in the
winter time we're extremely dry out here.

An interesting thing is happening now. I put my old router back on the
network again. This one I thought was almost dead, but now it looks
like it's got new life in it. About the only difference between what
it was before and what it is now is that I've pushed the router about
two inches diagonally behind the cable modem, whereas previous it was
half an inch right next to the cable modem. I thought there was enough
separation between them, but it's looking like maybe there wasn't.
Maybe they heat each other up?