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In general,1 modem per year dies on me. The rep considers that normal. Now these things run hot, so one year I put a timer in there so it was only powered on w
by hyperman1 7y ago
In general,1 modem per year dies on me. The rep considers that normal. Now these things run hot, so one year I put a timer in there so it was only powered on when I was home and not sleeping. 6 months and 4 modems later, I decided to remove the timer.
- jandrese 7y agoOh yeah. If you have a device that runs hot and you power cycle it a lot you're going to stress the heck out of the connections on the board. Every time it heats up or cools down you're putting pressure on the connectors until they eventually break.
- geocrasher 7y agoYep. Far better to put a small cooling fan pointing at it.
- hyperman1 7y agoI know. But to be honest, I get the modems for free, and I thought it couldn't get much worse. A small fan costs money, is potentially noisy. Besides it turns out there is a telnet script that tunes the automatic update to once every few minutes instead of every few milliseconds in an no sleep endless loop, which frees up a ton of CPU and lets the thing cool down. Telecom provider knew but didnt't want to change their config. In my case, I just switched ISPs.