Wired and Wireless routers have been getting faster and
adding new more demanding features that put more stresses on its internal parts.
The number 1 thing that kills these devices or makes them
develop problems is heat or trapped heat even if the case’s they are in has air
vents the components themselves have trouble getting rid of the heat. Manufactures
tend to use less expensive parts that may work but they get to hot and desolder from the board and cause the router to
shut off and you as a user lose your connection to the internet and your
network.
I’ve had one of the wired routers do just that on me in the
past and thought “great now I need a new router” then I got to messing around
and took the cover off and tried the router again it worked for about 2 minutes
then shut off I then checked all the components and found several capacitors
were so hot they burned my finger the second I touched it and after I unplugged
the power it cooled and re soldered back to the board. Then I though let’s try
a fan to keep it cool.
Then I got the old CPU fan out of a dead PC and soldered it
to the power connector of the router to keep it cool and tried it and success
it works. I’ve been using this setup for about 3 years now with no problems. The
same setup can be used for wireless routes as well and until manufacturers use
better components they will still have overheating issues into the future.
So a D.I.Y if you are having this trouble and have an extra PC
case or CPU fan lying around would be kind of long to explain in writing. So here
is a video on what it looks like.
(not what my router looks like but the fan mod is the same)
Video from YouTube user Velaw8
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