One of the customer reviews warns of extreme overheating. Does this Router run hot for you?
1661618
No. I have had mine for a couple of years now and it runs fine. Best range of any I have used. I bought these for both my daughters, as well as two friends. All are running perfectly. If you get one that runs hot, send it back - it is defective. The folks who have hot running ones should have gotten another one. It has a warranty. If it had failed in another way, it would have been returned. Why wouldn't you return one that is running hot? I guess they would rather low rate a fine piece of equipment than to send it back. Amazon is really hard to send things back to. NOT!
1661619
I have purchases (5) of these refurbished. All run cool to the touch, maybe becoming slightly warm when there is heavy traffic for a while. Doesn't seem to be a problem.
1661620
Mine overheated constantly, I wouldn't recommend it if you'll have more than 3 or 4 devices connected to it.Infact I wouldn't recommend it at all.
1731864
You shouldn't have to. I turn mine off daily and it stays configured. A couple of times I have had to redo it, but mine is almost 300 ft. from the router.
707571
Have not had an overheating issue. Can turn on turbo fan if you do. I use mine for automotive test equipment so it sits on cooler metal cart tops or travels with me and is used on auto floors, dashes, seats, and fenders. Probably the time in service is much shorter than gaming is for you.
1793423
It can run pretty hot, but I've never had any performance issues from overheating. If you're really that worried about it, buy a cheap cooling pad. Mine cools it down easily even while gaming.
1503717
Yes, of course it is hot to the touch, extremely hot! That is, when it works. But then it does not often work. So there is a trade-off here.
713831
I've run mine for 15 minutes continuously on the highest speed and on gave it a 5 minutes break before moving on to another task. It does get warm but it should not be hot.
1632437
Yes, it does run hot and there we're times I felt like my hand was going to burn on certain places of the laptop. It only runs hot when I'm gaming for hours tho. I have not reached 100C as of yet. I put a fan underneath the laptop and can get around 85C, has spiked to 95C here and there then goes back down. I'm extremely happy with my purchase tho. :)
256078
Case is vented. I've overclocked mine to 1100 Mhz, temperature never gets above 60C. With this Evercool router fan underneath it the CPU hovers between 36-39 Evercool Dr. Cool Multi Functional Router, Modem, or Switch Cooler RC-01 but I don't think it's really necessary. Most chips can handle up to at least 80C without issues.
1678118
I am currently with an Asus router and don't seem to have issues. I've got with a Linksys router issues, but have no idea what to do. Didn't have issues with Trendnet router as well
1148996
I bought two about 5 months ago and have not had any problems. Perhaps the problem is with your router.
887535
Hi, My advice is to return that piece of garbage,I bought it but I installed like a month and a half after, the worse router I ever had, very poor signal range, connection drops constantly, I tried to return it but it was too late, I threw 70 bucks to the garbage, if you can, again stay away from that router it will give you many headaches. It is the last time I buy a Netgear product. Good luck!
1370794
I own two of them and I have never had that problem. Check to make sure that the filter screen is not dirty and clogged, I know that this will make it run hot.
1847626
I really like my Buffalo AirStation. It is the best no issue at allhttp://www.buffalotech.com/products/wireless/dual-band-routers/airstation-extreme-ac-1200-gigabit-dual-band-wireless-router
1427183
Mine gets hot too but i have had it running for a year and never had any problems
763757
Mine has been running for over a month. It sits in an AV rack system, so I don't see it often. I just checked and it is only warm to the touch.
1245852
I have not noticed any time to warm up. I"m amazed at the high quality sound I get . I hope it has a long useful life. Some things like my Century Link Modem contains a chip that causes the modem to fail when server format is changed. I hope this is not a future trend in electronics. I have to pay $180 per year to replace modems which have been programmed by my ISP to fail.
78465
I have gone through 2 of them that lasted just outside of the warranty period, so I do not consider this a good product. I switched to Asus routers, and have had better luck so far.