Page 2 - How To Add A Fan To A Router

haha, nah it's cool man, it works fine in the great (cold windy great british) outdoors; what's more important is making it waterproof haha.

i suggest a plexiglass roof, v shape. you can bend it with a hot gun.

if you're really ghetto though, I'm sure you can get away with a milk box cut in half, stuck together with tape (v-shape house roof style) and just put it above the usb key. the only thing left is to make sure it doesn't touch the floor. I'm sure you can find yourself a brick or something

Hmm a more creative way to do it is make your own custom water block, attach the router to the inside of your case, have the antena sticking outside and run your case water cooling setup through the waterblock. I've seen it done on a custom job at the shop and it looked cool.

8.5/10 for this mod. if you drilled a row of holes down the side of the router furthest from the fan, which would aid the airflow past the heatsinks you would get 10/10.
nice conversion of a fan into a blower.

this mod is very similar to the mod im doing on my hdtv box now. it's a panasonic unit, retail $600 got it on sale for $300, runs hot. opened it up and the main proc. chip has no heatsink but the board has holes & markings for a heatsink!! an old gf2 heatsink fits perfectly but was still a lil hot. drilled and tapped an old amd heatsink to fit and shes nicely passivly cooled. bolted a few lil heatsinks to the pathetic psu flat heatsinks to get the psu cool. there are two more chips that get warm/hot so im gonna stick another lil heatsink on the little one and the gf2 heatsink on the bigger one, gotta get some thermal paste/glue stuff first.

the bloody cover needs alot of holes added. no ventilation for psu at all!!! and very little around main proc chip. that amd sink needs to breathe. not impressed with panasonic here, they want this unit to only last a few years at most so we have to buy a new one

And now, after a couple of days, is still stable modification now?

I have bought that same router/usb kit at Futureshop and it reset itself many times an hour (the network link is lost for a few second and i am loosing my network connection at same time).

What a nice patch, i like it. If i find no other solution, i will try it myself :-)...

Thanks

the router itself is perfectly fine, but as i have found, the usb might not be as high quality as required, it keeps freezing the pc from time to time, but the wireless connection doesnt drop for more than half a seccond before reconnecting, while before it dropped completely.

i say the router is perfectly fine because when the wireless dropped, it would drop both wireless and wired at the same time, and nothing short of a unplug/replug would suffice.

im considering a pci card for the wireless, since those are more properly designed than a usb key is. they also seem to use less ressources than the usb key from what i have read.

good luck if you are going to mod yours too! oh yes, and the firmware update might help you too. (found here)

Very interesting. Was the heat problem realized when lots of bandwidth was used, or just a random occurrence?

http://www.devhardware.com/forums/n...html#post648930

I'm wondering if this would have any impact/correlation with my network issues?