Cooling your Access Point?

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Posted by Cliff on Tuesday July 1, 2003 @07:23AM 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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Move to Alaska by PeteyG · 2003-07-01 07:29 · Score: 2, Funny

Move to Alaska, like I did. I live down the street from a glacier, and I let my superpowered gaming laptop heat my room at night.

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Get airconditioning by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-01 07:31 · Score: 2, Funny

You damn dirty hippy.
It's easy, you answered it yourself by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-01 07:37 · Score: 2, Funny

LEAVE THE FAN THERE instead of taking it away. Simple.
Forced Air Ventillation by pbox · 2003-07-01 08:08 · Score: 3, Funny

1. take the drill to the top of the case. Make a 60 or 80 mm diameter hole.

2. Get a cheap 60 or 80 mm computer fan ($3 investment).

3. Mount with 2 or 4 screws to the top of the case.

4/a (some geekness, but mobile) Take your multimeter (everyone should have one lying around) and find a 5-12 V power to supply the fan. This should be not that hard for any geek. Look around the power supply. Solder fan wires.

4/b (less elegant, but no need to know EE) Take an old PC power supply, hardwire the ATX power signal. Connect fan.

5. Profit. I mean surf.

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Re:Same as SMC by Laplace · 2003-07-01 08:16 · Score: 3, Funny

I agree. happend to my brother.

You left some magazines on your brother and he overheated?

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Re:Is this REALLY an issue? by raju1kabir · 2003-07-01 11:14 · Score: 2, Funny

I have a dlink ap-1000 that doesnt even get to room temperature.

That's pretty impressive. Better turn it off once in a while or you'll cool the earth to absolute zero.

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Re:Nope by b!arg · 2003-07-02 10:48 · Score: 2, Funny

I prefer to call it the vegetable rotter as I only tend to look in that damned compartment about once a month.

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