And just like everything else in IT, as soon as I finished posting the above post, the service came back and it is back online. So, it was a 10-15 minutes downtime. On the bright side, it came back online on its own which tells me it is related to the service signal, tower, DHCP renewal or whatever else but it is not because of overheating.
Same issue all over again. Even with a 120mm fan underneath the trashcan the gateway stopped passing traffic after 6 days. Even though the gateway shows as connected, as if nothing is wrong with it: At this point the only solution is to reboot the gateway. So, it might be an overheating issues for some but like I said in my first post, this is not an overheating issue as in my specific case. The gateway is just going stupid. I gotta research to see how I can schedule/force overnight reboots. This is certainly rather inconvenient!
I put a 120mm noctua fan underneath the trashcan. Will report back the next time I have to reboot that thing.
You’re describing my symptoms almost exactly and adding a fan fixed it. I would go several days, maybe even a week, and then it would stop passing traffic. What I found out later is that it was still passing traffic but very very slow. Pings were intermittent but they got through. My modem was never hot to the touch and I was not using the built-in wi-fi. And the room it was in was cool. The overheating is very isolated but a very real issue. It probably also depends on signal strength and how hard your modem has to work to keep the connection going. What you pointed out actually makes sense. It reads 97F internally and the room is dry cold. I’m gonna add some air flow to it.
Hi,As I see it, I don’t believe this to be an issue related to overheating. I have rebooted the trashcan twice in 15 days (8 days and 7 days uptime respectively). My gateway does not do WiFi in my network; I turned that feature off. The only device that connects to the trashcan is my netgate (pfsense) router. I don’t know if there is a way to read trashcan logs because there are none available in its GUI but I can tell you for sure that it simply “goes stupid” as in it stops passing any traffic through; the “fix” is to manually reboot the gateway. Currently on software version 1.2101.00.1609 which seems to be the latest stable publicly available.Generally speaking (and this is pure speculation as I don’t have logs from the gateway) a reboot is not a way to correct overheating. Besides, in my personal case, the trashcan sits in a room with controlled temps/humidity and it doesn’t even get warm to the touch. If I were to pull one out of the hat I’d say it is firmware related such as fail
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