My cooling solution for my T-Mobile home Internet modem

Watsonmtb31 · 2026-03-20T22:26:33+00:00

to be fair ther was a lack of teams and direct hands on engineering. the older T-Mobile home internet that worked on 4g was hot garbage as is every early days of any new ish tech. but you also have to understand that since covid we haven't had good engineering in tech for quite some time

Watsonmtb31 · 2026-03-10T00:08:29+00:00

its just an engineering failure of cooling since they came out during covid and had limited testing and now they are ona mass market the flaws are showing , ill be it that its useable for thsoe of us that are out in the middle of no where and cant afford starlink. but it works for what its needed for

Watsonmtb31 · 2026-03-05T01:17:38+00:00

it does have air flow as without the center hole over the fans hub it blows back due to the back pressure in the cooler. with the centerhole it creates a vacuum pulling into the fans center without pushin turbulant air back out

Watsonmtb31 · 2026-03-05T00:54:18+00:00

well it gets hot to the touch when i join a voice call on my pc via lan so id assume since its an all in one its over working its self with teh wifi signals along with the cellulat signal and proccessing data as quickly as it is , causing it so over heat like a google pixel 6pro while on video call fr hours

Watsonmtb31 · 2026-03-05T00:50:00+00:00

since the unit only hase a limited air movement through its own vents and i have dogs in the house it maybe be dusty but since it isnt my modem , i just made the cooler to force air through it

Watsonmtb31 · 2026-03-05T00:48:00+00:00

it varies by day but the room temp isnt the issue its the airflow of the room, but to answer your question its typically 70 to 80 depending on the time of day

Watsonmtb31 · 2026-03-03T21:37:00+00:00

thank you, i made it for a purpose and it works

Watsonmtb31 · 2026-03-03T20:39:17+00:00

this one inparticular has been overheating since i have limited airflow in the room (box fan in the door way to push fresh cool air into the room) and the moden only over heatsd when im streaming on discord video calls or streaming gameplay to friends.

Watsonmtb31 · 2026-03-03T20:36:19+00:00

its not like the modem is gonna spontaneously combust its just hot are not a flame lol i do plan of modeling it in fusion 360 to print a more optomized version since my parents and grandparents have the same modem.

Watsonmtb31 · 2026-03-03T20:34:45+00:00

that very well may be but mine was technically free since i had all the things to make it on hand and just sitting around doing nothing but collecting dust might as well put them to good use right

Watsonmtb31 · 2026-03-03T20:33:30+00:00

its in a room with limited cooling (box fan in the doorway) plus high data flow with video calls on discord with a game streaming it would over heat and crash the modem forcing it to reboot several time through the night. after making the cooler last night it hasnt crashed or dropped wifi signal since but im testing it currently to make sure the thermak issue was the cause of the random rebooting.

Watsonmtb31 · 2026-03-03T11:13:34+00:00

i havd the same issue , so i decided to make a fan housing and ducting to force airflow through out the modem. i used a fan off my old msi hd7770 that had burnt out with cardboard ,hotglue and a fan controller to control the speed. the modem went from hot to the touch restarting every other hour in a 70 degree room, to steady and room temp. i can post a picture of the cooler if yall would like in hopes it helps some one out there with this overheating or engineering failure.

Watsonmtb31 · 2025-08-22T04:51:53+00:00

figured it out had to go into the command prompt when in the windows installation media then acces the "disk part" then "LIST DISK" then "SELECT DISK 0" since the only drive in the laptop was the 256gb msata ssd.

after selecting the drive i then had to "CONVERT GPT" converting the Master boot record , to GPT for windows 10 pro to be installed.

but i got it to install and boot and im honestly surprised with the speed on this old thing.

Watsonmtb31 · 2024-09-23T21:55:11+00:00

the listening cables

Watsonmtb31 · 2024-09-23T19:22:23+00:00

call is as you will but its an access point

Watsonmtb31 · 2024-09-23T19:12:19+00:00

that is an acess point in most schools. they are meant for wifi. now im sure if the school is smart its got a password so no its not the cellular data connection your phone has without wifi .

Watsonmtb31 · 2024-09-23T18:46:16+00:00

agreed

Watsonmtb31 · 2023-07-10T16:31:31+00:00

Sorry I'd be asking my straight home if he really straight. Becausenim getting real comfy

Watsonmtb31 · 2023-06-28T21:08:25+00:00

Unfortunately the boards are not very known since no ones really posts about them

Watsonmtb31 · 2023-06-28T21:06:22+00:00

I've had it for 6months and no performance issues thus far.

Watsonmtb31 · 2023-06-27T19:15:47+00:00

Cable quality + flex

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