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Cooling your Access Point?

Posted by Cliff on from the WLANs-dislike-heat-ya-know dept.

CmdrChillupa asks: "Summer's here in the US. I don't really mind the heat and I've lived my whole life without AC. Just gotten used to having fresh air instead of pre-processed. There's only one problem with this whole theory. After a long day at work I get home and go to do a little surfing on my PowerBook and my WLAN is down. I have a Siemens Speedstream 2624 Wireless Router that from all appearances dislikes the heat more than I do. I've gotten into a habit of holding it in front of a fan for a few minutes everyday when I get home, I thought the fridge might be a bit too humid for it's electronics. Anybody have any solutions aside from a alum-alloy-peltier-inter-cooled-turbo-charged-9 monstrosity?"

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  1. Re:Don't buy shit? by MImeKillEr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Buying a LinkSys is akin to buying shit.

    Get a D-Link or a Cisco 340 or 350.

    LinkSys isn't getting any more of my $, nor will I pass up a chance to badmouth their crappy products and support.

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    Cruising the internet on my TI-99/4A @ a whopping 300 baud!