WG602 Getting Hot and Bothered

I have a WG602. It tends to run quite warm to the touch at times;
recently, it's been having some problems with huge latency and packet
loss on its ethernet interface - which of course affects the
performance of all the wireless clients connected to it. I've owned
this AP for about a year.

I usually have good luck with Netgear equipment; is this a fluke? Or a
sign of cost-cutting in Netgear's newer designs?

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