Cooling your router

[dualmeister]

Does anyone add extra cooling to their router?

Personally I have a small USB desktop fan blowing over mine, however I came across some people who take it a step further

Examples

 

[Fox1]

LOL! Coming soon...How to cool your printer

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

Where did you get these from? I'd love to read the reasoning behind this...

 

[Electric]

That's dumb lol,
Water cooling a router, lol, wtf.

 

[dualmeister]

Where did you get these from? I'd love to read the reasoning behind this...

Here
Here
Here
This forum even has a thread devoted to it.

Used my Dremel on this one too. Added a 80mm fan and dropped temps from 65c to 44c. 21c temp drop is nice!

[video=youtube;WCTru99pGt0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCTru99pGt0[/video]

Without a fan my similar ASUS router gets very hot to the touch in summer.

 

[AstroTurf]

lol, should probably do this with my lte router as it gets pretty much direct sun daily from around 12:30 till night time...

 

[dualmeister]

I use one of these

Not ready to dremel my router ... yet

 

[Diesal]

If I cool my router will my internet be faster

 

[Budza]

Hehe.

What're you using it for that it gets so hot?

Mine would heat up during large file transfers but that was about it... Never noticed any instability/crashes as a result.

Get/Make one of these: http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Stove-Fan-for-under-50/

Saw one in action last weekend. Pretty sweet

 

[Ho3n3r]

I bought a laptop cooler with 2 fans and put my router on that.

 

[Hemps]

Something I need to cool is my DSTV HD decoder, that thing gets way too hot.

 

[rsifan]

Wow.

My router get's slightly warm to the touch, but nowhere near hot enough that I would worry about cooling it. And it stays on 24/7!

I have one of these:

 

[ponder]

Got a dg834 something that gets fsck hot to the point where it freezes. Stuck a smallish heatsink to the main chip and left the cover off.

 

[chickenbeef]

If I cool my router will my internet be faster

If you're planning on using a fan, make sure it blows in the correct direction. You wouldn't want your data to be blown back upstream.

 

[ponder]

If you're planning on using a fan, make sure it blows in the correct direction. You wouldn't want your data to be blown back upstream.

That would up your rep for bittorrent seeding though

 

[sajunky]

If I cool my router will my internet be faster

Actually in reverse. A big Internet pipe (above 80Mbps) will cool your router quicker.

 

[Rickster]

I have a an old P4 CPU cooler turned upside down on my router, i dont know why these things get so bloody hot.


It gets to 55c without the cooler.

 

[mintydroid]

/Note to self check router temp and get water cooling

 

[Deleted member 83147]

My router has a USB port, so maybe I can get one of those small USB powered fans to cool it.

Don't think it's an issue at the moment, but I've read that overheating is one of the most common reasons for router failure.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Unless you are putting it inside a cupboard or some other enclosed space there shouldn't be any need for active cooling.