Cooling your Access Point?

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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If you need reliable cooling... by mnmn · 2003-07-01 07:29 · Score: 4, Interesting

I read someone had done this for his desktop pc..

Take a long flat piece of aluminium bar. Bolt one end into the inside of the AP possibly on top of the hottest chips (will need to drill a hole or slot in the side) and the other end of the bar is bolted on a water pipeline or metal structure of the building that runs through the concrete. This makes your router VERY immobile.

I'm betting youll find an easier way like placing the router in a cooler place, but I just needed to throw in this possibility.

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