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added a fan and also a copper heatsink to the box's cpu
haha free mods rock
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Modded my Linksys Wireless Router today...
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lol why?
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liftedcj7on44s said:
it's raining outside. i was bored.
re-organized my office and ended up with a box full of extra fans. i also noticed my router gets a little warm sometimes, so i thought it might help.
the fan is a little noisy at 12v, i think i'm going to put a resistor on it.
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it looks good though. does it send data any faster now?
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I was thinking of doing something like this with my Linksys gigabit switch. The stock fan on that thing is noisier than anything else near my desk/computers. What fan did you use?
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Awesome. I think I need to do this to my netgear... it crashes every so often.
Hey, you should make your antennas directional and boost the gain of their sending/recieving too! Put parabolic dishes on them! I did it on my USB dongle, but it would be much better for a wireless router. Could be done for less than 5 dollars, and it will increase the range and security of your network.
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=441784
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=441784
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ahha omg that look so cool
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What's powering the fan?
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it's actually one of those thin 70mm fans off a stock AMD heatsink
it's a 12v fan, so i just fan's power & ground to the power plug connections on the board. the unit runs off a 12v DC power source, so i didn't even need any resistors or anything.
two connections, a few screws, a left over fan grill, some cutting and it was done.
it's a 12v fan, so i just fan's power & ground to the power plug connections on the board. the unit runs off a 12v DC power source, so i didn't even need any resistors or anything.
two connections, a few screws, a left over fan grill, some cutting and it was done.
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I sure hope you have DD-WRT on there.
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now all you need to do is a mod to make port forwarding easy.... i swear... if they came out with a router that made port forwarding easy and advertized it as such... they would make a killing.
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port forwarding is easier than pie on a d link router.... or at least to me it is.... i have an Ftp server, cs server, http server, ... the list goes on and it was fairly easy to setup.....
WOW that is probably the craziest thing i have seen done to a router.... but why... un less u can overclock it to make it a gigabit router with that fan its useless.
WOW that is probably the craziest thing i have seen done to a router.... but why... un less u can overclock it to make it a gigabit router with that fan its useless.
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i have yet to sucessfully port forward a router. even after following instructions. though i havnts tried it on lots of them or anything. i do remember it seeming simple as i followed the instrutions without a hitch, clicked the finish button or whatever and killed my connection. then spent the next hour or 2 fixing it
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zactly.... its called virtural server under advanced on a D link... pretty much every d link is setup the same
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The ports you're trying to foward are probably blocked. Like port 80 for HTTP is commonly blocked, but some ISP's don't block common server ports (TimeWarner and SpeakEasy, for exmaple).
