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Thermal Issues With Home Internet Gateway/Router as a Cause of Dropped/Slow Internet or Wi-Fi Connection
I am a Newbie here and a fairly new T-Mobile Home Internet customer. But my background is electrical engineering and I've been around a while. Like many community members I have experienced frustrati...
Smoky wrote:Smoky wrote:I have now not had a loss of internet since June 10th. The fan solved the problem so far.
The 5G cylinder sits in the exact same place as it did during the many May failures. It is just raised about 1 inch by sitting it on top of the USB fan. I made no other changes to the setup, not even rotating the 5g cylinder.
I went from seemingly random failures to none.
I recently added t-mobile's YouTube TV offer and no problems. I was concerned it wouldn't show local channels with the home internet jumping around, but the location is determined by your cellphone. Very pleased so far.
I now have gone over two months without a reset since adding the fan below the unit. Plus my usage has gone up as we now have YouTube TV in use regularly. I get 80 to 120 down and 20 to 50 uploads. One thing I forgot to report is that I have the WiFi turned off. I go out the Ethernet port to an eero mesh system to supply WiFi coverage in my house.
It is obvious to me there is a heat problem at a minimum in the design of the 5g cylinder.
I have now passed FOUR months with the fan running, as I discussed months ago, and have not had a single internet dropping out failure. It is obvious to me there is a heat problem with the 5g cylinder.
