If it's a fairly small switch with no forced cooling, it'll be fine.
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Network Switch in Loft?
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Is it too dusty? Pitched roof with felt, not filthy but loads of cobwebs and insulation fibres. Anyone done this and survived? Short of enclosing in cupboard with fancy grill work or covering with moskito netting...is this a good idea (it seemed like it when I routed all the cables up there).
TIA
Phil
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18 years ago
Probably not - but it might be rather too hot in the summer for good reliability.
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18 years ago
Thats where mine is ......
Rick
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18 years ago
And was there an apostrophe in 'Thats' when you sent it...? ;-)
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I don't see one, r u trying to correct my english, are you taking the piss out of the disabled ? would you take the piss out of somebody in a wheelchair ? Why take the piss out of dsylexics ?
Rick
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18 years ago
I actually thought it was quite a funny joke about how the switch might be malfunctioning.
As for dyslexia - it's not a real condition. Get over it.
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Idiot troll.
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It was indeed just a joke about the possible effects of an overheated network switch! (dropped packets in case it's still not clear) Admittedly not all that funny, but by my own poor standards about as good as it gets!
As for taking the piss out of someone in a wheelchair; yes I probably would. I wouldn't discriminate against someone just because they're in a wheelchair. Would you? Are you suggesting a disabled person can't take a joke? ;-)
Mathew
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Yes, I thought he sounded like one too.
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You ignorant little f****it.
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You are the wankler, not the people you insult.
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probably
There is a difference between laughing *with* them and laughing *at* them...
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:34:29 +0100,it is alleged that "TheScullster" spake thusly in uk.d-i-y:
That's where mine is too, the only proviso I have is that I have a small 100mm fan (from a PC PSU) hooked to a thermostat and 'plugpack' PSU set to 35 degrees C. This may or may not actually be doing anything useful.
Try to keep the hub low down, where the air is cooler, a small shelf a few inches above the floor in my case.
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Indeed, and I think Mathew was talking about laughing at them, taking the piss out of them. What he did *not* say was that he would do so purely on account of them being in a wheelchair, which would indeed be unacceptable.
Someone being in a wheelchair makes no difference whether I might take the piss out of them for, say, supporting a particularly useless football team, or driving a Lada, or...
MBQ
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In article , TheScullster writes
It might be such a good idea on very hot days as the power unit, usually a wall wart, can get rather hot and the added loft temp wouldn't assist reliability either seeing that these aren't all that good in the first place.
Can't you do like we've done and drop it down into somewhere like the airing cupboard where you can keep an eye on it and the temp is usually lower?....
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;-)
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Mine too. Twin fan forced cooling on the hub and a pentium 2 firewall PC.
Been running for 18 months so far, winter & summer. Don't go up very often so i'm not disturbing the insuation much.
Cheers
Pauul.
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Of course. And in reference to my original point about the missing apostrophe I rather hope you would consider it a case of the former... The ;-) which, perhaps Rick overlooked, was intended to show it was a 'joke' (funny or not![1]) in that it was an overheated switch that caused the omission, and not dyslexia!
Mathew
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Not defending lack of the occasional apostrophe, since that is not one of the particularly well known traits of dyslexia. However to claim that it does not exist seems to be a rather extreme position (or perhaps just uninformed one) given that it is extensively documented, and readily identifiable these days (at least in the more severe cases).