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High Operating Temp Environment
I am looking for a reasonably priced wireless router that can handle temps above 120 degrees.
All cabling for the house is in the garage, in LHC AZ, a very hot place in the summer.
I could do a firewall and switch in the garage (still needs to handle above 120 degrees) and place a wireless router in the house.
Do they have a combined switch and firewall out there ?
Looking at all possibilities.
Thanks,
Charlie
Thank you everyone for your input.
I ended up purchasing a Mikrotik RouterBoard RB2011iL-IN (wired router) for the garage. It is rated at 149 degrees.
I purchased a WNDR4300V2 wireless router for in the house.
It was 116 degrees out the other day, it was 106 degrees in the garage.
Everything is working fine.
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Consider this, when ambient temp. is 120, router internal temp is much higher than that.
At least you should think about forced air cooling.
I agree a fan would help, how much in a 120 degree environment, I'm not sure.
Go with one of the Qualcomm based routers like the R7800 or R7500v2 they run much cooler than the Broacom based ones like R8000 and to top it off the qualcomm CPU is much more powerful per MHz and its actually clocked higher on top of that. I did use a WNDR3800 a few years ago abroad where temps hit towards your range and it was fine so if you want a garunteed/tested one this would be it but it is a much older device lol.
I used my WNDR 3800 like that for almost two years, and when I returned to the states it was still fine and working by which time I upgraded and gave it away. Asus uses Broadcom only, and from my experience they run (current gen Broadcom) hotter than the Qualcomm chips which are far more powerful as well so I would think it would be a somewhat easy decision on picking a router with the QCA chipset, if you are looking at current gen offerings. Another thing which may be trivial at the moment but should be mentioned is that the Qualcomm MU-MIMO implementation actually works while the Broadcom one is still in beta last I checked. MU-MIMO client s aren't very common but they are picking up with new products.
See that Asus routers use 19V wall wart vs. Netgear 12V. I use R7800 myself. To improve ventilation one can drill more holes on the router
case. Redo the heat sinking compund on the cpu, radio chips.
Thank you everyone for your input.
I ended up purchasing a Mikrotik RouterBoard RB2011iL-IN (wired router) for the garage. It is rated at 149 degrees.
I purchased a WNDR4300V2 wireless router for in the house.
It was 116 degrees out the other day, it was 106 degrees in the garage.
Everything is working fine.
