Re: The unlikely case of the router and the television!

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From: Nigel Andrews (nandrews_at_clara.co.uk)
Date: 12/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 07:44:52 -0000

Thank-you for the contributions.

I am getting even more convinced that this is a temperature issue. I decided
to leave the TV on overnight and early morning the network was still working
(where it would have been failed on previous nights).
This is where it gets stranger!
I did notice that whilst it was working, the speed was very slow. The room
temp had by then dropped about 3 degrees from the normal day temp. So I put
a small paddy bag on top of the router and over the next 20 minutes the
speed slowly improved back to it's normal (fast) speed. This morning the
speed is still up to normal and the transferring between PC's and browsing
network drives is working smoothly and without the previous errors.
I still find it difficult to accept that a few degrees temp change is the
root cause, but everything is pointing that way.

Maybe tonight I should tuck the router in bed and give it some milk and
cookies!!!

Nigel

"Chuck" <none@example.net> wrote in message
news:3ijnr0p8vugk1hbt3c2flcesivesiqs771@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:31:15 +0000 (UTC), efflandt@xnet.com (David
Efflandt)
> wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:26:05 -0000, Nigel Andrews <nandrews@clara.co.uk>
wrote:
> >> I have been experiencing problems with the wireless side of my Netgear
MR314
> >> router.
> >> The wireless network has been failing late at night and returning,
slowly,
> >> in the morning.
> >>
> >> I have been chasing all sorts of ideas but I am now, reluctantly,
coming to
> >> the conclusion that the television set is having an effect!
> >> The wireless router is sited on top of the television, where it has
been
> >> working quite happily for the last two years. It now seems that within
about
> >> 45 minutes of switching off the television the wireless network fails.
In
> >> the morning, despite rebooting PC and the router as well as resetting
the
> >> router to factory config, the wireless network remains failed. But
within 30
> >> to 45 mins of switching on the television the network begins to return
> >> pings!!
> >
> >Have you tried relocating the router? The top of a TV is NOT a good
place
> >for it, where it may have been adversely affected by heat or magnetic
> >fields. Just hope it is not beyond the point of no return.
> >
> >The reverse of that was when I thought the monitor of a co-worker was
> >defective because the top of the image was wavering annoyingly. When I
> >was going to return the monitor and removed a clock sitting on top of it,
> >the monitor suddenly worked perfectly. Apparently a transformer in the
> >clock had been affecting the monitor.
>
> I worked with some ladies once who taped "Out To Lunch" posters to the
front of
> their monitors. When they were working, they would carefully lift the
posters
> (still taped) over the top of the monitors, so they rested on top (and
blocked
> the air vents). One day, one monitor burned out.
>
> The repair tech was not very polite when he swapped monitors, and the
posters
> were removed quickly.

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