Thursday, June 18, 2009

"My router mod" Epilogue or "Wow, I'm still alive and still have a house"

Well after 3 tries I finally got the Picasa album set up. During the mod, I couldn't find my wife's camera, so I just used my cell phone to take the pictures. The quality of those pictures was somewhat reminiscent of that famous picture of the Loch Ness Monster. I decided that this was unacceptable and decided to make a more diligent effort to find my wife's camera. This involved sitting down on the couch, scanning the immediate vicinity, then asking my wife to find it for me. Bingo! Works every time.

I took apart my router again and took all new pictures using the camera's automatic settings. Of course instead of checking the quality of the photos before putting the router back together, I just assumed that my photography skills would be on par with my computer skills and sewed the thing back up. As it turns out, my photography skills are more akin to my "finding stuff" skills...

Alright, round 3. This time I downloaded the PDF manual for the camera from Cannon's website and read all of the relavent sections. Turns out that the camera's automatic settings are better used for taking scenery snapshots than macro photography. Go figure... This last set of photos turned out pretty good I think (there are still some of the crappy ones from my phone mixed in the album, but only a few).

Take a peek at them and let me know what you think:
http://picasaweb.google.com/JoelslawTTN/RosewillRNXN4RouterFanMod?feat=directlink

I'm still working on the router modding guide to post on Anandtech, but I'll let you know when it's up.

PS - I know you're all sick of hearing about my router, so I promise the next post will be more interesting about something else.

6 comments:

  1. Did the mod actually fix the issues it has?

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  2. It seems to have done the job. I haven't had to reset my router since the mod! A few things you can also try:
    1. Update the firmware - If you have the RNX-N4, they are up to version 1.3.00. I only have 1.2.06 installed right now, but I plan on updating it soon.
    2. Turn off WISH - This is supposed to be a type of QOS for wireless connections, but my connections seemed faster after I turned it off.
    3. Turn off Streaam Processing - this is QOS for the WAN connection, but once again, I found that my connection worked faster without it.

    If you do decide to mod yours, post some pictures online and send me a link. I'd love to see how yours turns out.

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  3. kk :) i got mine today will msg you later oh and do you mean streamengine when you mean stream procesing?

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  4. Right, stream engine, that's what I meant. I look forward to hearing about your mod. Just out of curiosity, what kind of fan did you choose to use?

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  5. I was planning on using 2 micro gpu fans on each of the heatsinks on the router. Since the case has holes around the sides, i rather keep the case unpunctured.

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  6. Hmm, that sounds like a cool idea. I hope you plan on posting some pics online. I would love to see how it looks.

    How are you going to mount the fans on the heatsinks?

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