I 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 tur

I 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.