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Belkin Router overheating problem

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jonnyknowsbest

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Feb 3, 2004
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I have a Belkin router (yes, cheapskate, i know) which suffers from the stupid overheat - reboot problem. In the winter, this never happens, but in the summer, it reboots every 15 minutes or so. Can anyone recommend things to use to cool it down, i was thinking about taking the plastic case off and running a CPU fan on it. But how would i power it?

Any ideas appreciated

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jonnyknowsbest

Little light bulb appears over head "bing!!"

USB powered fan, those little things you buy that have a bendy stalk.
Should be sufficient to prevent this overheat problem once strategically placed.




As it only happens in the summer it doesn't need to be a permenant fixture.
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THat's the kind of human ingenuity that gets results

Good call that man

Cheers

Jonny
 
You can also simply buy a small, cordless or corded fan. I have a small cordless i use when its hot, i blow it on me.
I have another fan, it looks just like a system fan, its even black, same size, but made of metal and with a standard household 110 volt plug. That would do the job as well, but, to be honest, that one is a bit noisy. but with a speed reducer thingie on it, it would be fine. I got it at radioshack. They see me coming and all of a sudden they put 75% off tickets on stuff nobody else will buy, lol.





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I forgot, my cordless also has a slow and a fast speed on it as well, handy. Takes 2 D batteries that run forever.



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These things are not supposed to heat that much. Out of curiousity, have you tried running it with the case open? Can you test with your finger which part gets hot? It is possibly the regulator that goes into and overtemperature shutdown. Just to tell that maybe a passive heat sink (those with a sticker) could do the job. Or just drilling some holes in the casing, under and above the hot part.


 
I have a DLink DI-784 router that also has heat issues.. it was rebooting or crashing (locked up) 2-3 times per day. The DLink plastic box has no rubber feet, it just sits flat on the desktop where heat that is generated gets absorbed by the desktop with nowhere for it to go. Dlink even thought to put twelve vent cutouts in the bottom of the case that sits flat on the desktop. DUH!

After calling tech support only to be put on permanent hold, and sending email which never received a response, I turned to Google. Several forums said to upgrade the firmware... no downgrade the firmware, reset to factory defaults using a paper clip, use 802.11/a instead of 802.11/g, use 802.11/g instead of 802.11/a, use a different channel, etc... none of those worked. Or RMA it (only the replacement may be as bad or worse).

I finally noticed how hot the router was, especially on the bottom. So I turned it up on one end. It has been running solid with no reboots for three days now (a record).

I am going to try adding rubber feet tomorrow. If no joy I'll mod the case and add a 5 volt fan (power input on mine is 5 volts).
 
Frank4d, my DI704 came with rubber feet. It has the same case as yours. They snap into the oblong holes, and even allow to stack routers over each other. Perhaps they were missing in your box.


 
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