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Message 101229 - Posted: 23 Oct 2020, 10:13:05 UTC

grumble grumble grumble - wifi routers that let the smoke out......
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Message 101230 - Posted: 23 Oct 2020, 12:12:24 UTC - in response to Message 101229.  

grumble grumble grumble - wifi routers that let the smoke out......

You don't want to keep the smoke in there mate!
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Message 101231 - Posted: 23 Oct 2020, 12:51:43 UTC - in response to Message 101229.  

Tried to use it underwater again?
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Message 101232 - Posted: 23 Oct 2020, 13:02:02 UTC

No - just too many years without being turned off, they just don't make things to last these days
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Message 101233 - Posted: 23 Oct 2020, 13:36:55 UTC - in response to Message 101232.  

I disable the 5GHz transmitter as it pumps out crap loads of heat. So much so that it burned out the first modem/router I had from my ISP.
Why run 5GHz, but for the one device that uses it and that can't when in the bedroom because of too many walls between it and the router? So, 2.4GHz is all I use.

I am on my fourth modem/router due to two lightning strikes in close proximity in my last flat, both of which managed to wipe out my LAN connections - but left 2.4GHz wifi and internet intact.
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Message 101236 - Posted: 23 Oct 2020, 15:08:23 UTC - in response to Message 101233.  

I disable the 5GHz transmitter as it pumps out crap loads of heat. So much so that it burned out the first modem/router I had from my ISP.
Why run 5GHz, but for the one device that uses it and that can't when in the bedroom because of too many walls between it and the router? So, 2.4GHz is all I use.

I am on my fourth modem/router due to two lightning strikes in close proximity in my last flat, both of which managed to wipe out my LAN connections - but left 2.4GHz wifi and internet intact.


The Asus one I have barely gets warm with both 2.4GHz and 5GHz transmitting.
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Message 101237 - Posted: 23 Oct 2020, 15:08:34 UTC - in response to Message 101233.  

... managed to wipe out my LAN connections - but left 2.4GHz wifi and internet intact.
I had exactly that with an all-singing, all-dancing, modem/router/dual wifi branded "BT Home Hub 5A" - if the hub restarted for any reason, the LAN wouldn't reconnect, though the internet and the wifi would. And BT makes that hub reboot once a fortnight to check it can still negotiate the same ADSL speed. At 3 a.m.

After multiple phone calls, a factory replacement router, and home engineer visits - I re-contracted with BT, and got a free Home Hub 2 (which is newer and better than 5A, of course). That's worked flawlessly since April.
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Message 101262 - Posted: 24 Oct 2020, 7:46:13 UTC

As clothing has been deemed non-essential I am awaiting news reports of naked shoppers in supermarkets in Wales.
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Message 101268 - Posted: 24 Oct 2020, 8:43:01 UTC

...as seen in the average Walmart in the hotter (southern) states of the USA?
Being Wales however we may expect a more generally blue hue to such people.
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Message 101277 - Posted: 24 Oct 2020, 12:02:42 UTC - in response to Message 101268.  

Depends whether woad is an essential item or not.
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Message 101278 - Posted: 24 Oct 2020, 13:45:31 UTC - in response to Message 101262.  

At least alcohol is essential. 😂
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Message 101279 - Posted: 24 Oct 2020, 15:18:59 UTC - in response to Message 101232.  

No - just too many years without being turned off, they just don't make things to last these days
Since my last router died (don't know why but it could not handle the increase from 50mbs to 100mbs), I shut mine down for 30 min every month. Sometimes that is much longer, shut it down on way out for shopping, back on when return, so think it will be some time before I see some smoke from it. :-)
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Message 101280 - Posted: 24 Oct 2020, 16:03:52 UTC

Some things are designed to be left permanently switched on (or should be) - clock, fax, answerphone, fridge. MW clock radios should be like that, but my current DAB radio needs to be rebooted every couple of months, or else the buttons stop working...
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Message 101281 - Posted: 24 Oct 2020, 16:20:54 UTC

Grumble. apx 4 AM my when it came back my daily driver refused to boot.
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Message 101282 - Posted: 24 Oct 2020, 16:33:51 UTC - in response to Message 101281.  

Grumble. apx 4 AM my when it came back my daily driver refused to boot.
You trying out new code for us to break, or are you getting forgetful and while you type? ;-)
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Message 101306 - Posted: 26 Oct 2020, 4:40:53 UTC

Grumble, blew out a flip-flop. Beginning of winter, not going to have any in stores.
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Message 101357 - Posted: 28 Oct 2020, 19:36:29 UTC

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Message 101398 - Posted: 30 Oct 2020, 22:37:20 UTC - in response to Message 101306.  

Grumble, blew out a flip-flop. Beginning of winter, not going to have any in stores.

Speeding again?
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Message 101399 - Posted: 30 Oct 2020, 22:38:12 UTC

Times reporting that Johnson is considering a national lockdown from next week.
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Message 101401 - Posted: 31 Oct 2020, 1:08:20 UTC - in response to Message 101398.  

Grumble, blew out a flip-flop. Beginning of winter, not going to have any in stores.

Speeding again?

Nay/ Water on a too flat surface - suction cup and it tore.
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