Thank you so much for the suggestions. I was already planning on the vent and fan, but the heat shield and paint are also great ideas.
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Bill Prince <part...@skylinebroadbandservice.com> wrote: > First, paint the outside of the box white. Can drop the temp anywhere from > 10 to 50 degrees depending on what temp it was before > > Second, Put a heat shield in the form of an aluminum plate (also painted > white) mounted with about 1" air gap between your outdoor box and the plate. > > Third, add a vent; maybe even with a thermostatically-controlled fan. > > Sometimes you don't need more environmentally-tolerant equipment; maybe all > you need is to make the environment a little friendlier. > > > bp > > > On 7/1/2010 9:48 AM, Alan Bryant wrote: >> >> I'm curious what any of you guys are using for a RouterOS based device >> that can handle 100Mbps or more of throughput that will survive in >> somewhat harsh environmental conditions, namely heat& humidity. >> >> We are in South Texas (Corpus Christi area) and at one of our sites we >> do not have any kind of environmentally controlled building, just a >> wall-mounted box. I do not know what the temperature gets to in there >> during the middle of the day, but I can imagine it gets pretty hot. >> >> This site has a 100Mbps BH feed to it and easily averages 40Mbps. We >> tried an x86 based machine, but it could not handle the heat. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS > -- Alan Bryant | Systems Administrator Gtek Computers & Wireless, LLC. a...@gtekcommunications.com | www.gtek.biz O 361-777-1400 | F 361-777-1405 _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
