decaturtxcowboy <nope_none_@nowayspam.com> hath wroth:

>NetSteady wrote:
>> Geoff,
>>
>> Never, ever, put a linksys router outside. Tried it once and when it
>> got cold it stopped working.

We just had a few days below freezing in the area. Of the 8 assorted
outdoor routers of various types, none even showed any sign of a
problem. Also, no water in the coax cables. However, I did have a
PVC mounting pipe that had some water in the bottom, which froze, and
then split open.

>Don't know how cold you're talking about, but have a Linksys WRT54G tucked
>up under an eaves and inside a simple Walmart cover plastic bin to keep the
>dust out and its been working fine for two weekes with daytime temps below
>freezing.

About a year ago, Floyd L. Davidson mentioned that he had an outdoor
WRT54G router inside some kind of enclosure running in cold weather.
He's in Ukpeagvik (Barrow), Alaska which qualifies as very cold.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find the specific article in the Google
Groups archives.

The reason it works is simple. There's about 6 watts of heat coming
out of the board. In a closed small enclosure, that's quite a bit of
heat. It will keep the board fairly warm and generally dry. As long
as no moisture condenses on the board, it will work just fine.
Meltdown at high summer temperatures is a more serious problem. It's
quite easy to turn such a box into an oven.


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