On 2/6/25 06:06, Ceppo wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 12:17:40PM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: >> On 2/5/25 10:16, Ceppo wrote: >> >> Also, is this USB or a card? If USB, does it have a case you can >> remove? > > It's USB, and I think I can't remove the outer plastic case without > breaking it. See this [image].
Yeah, it doesn't have much thermal mass so the theory is harder to test. >> My hypothesis is that some component is overheating based on its >> failures being related to throughput. > > This is an interesting idea, but if this was the reason I couldn't > imagine why the issue only arised after ~2 years of use without any > significant change in my network activity habits. E.g. I use to download > huge and higly available files throught bittorent very often, so 2 MiB/s > or more is not an unusual throughput. Thermal compound (if there is any) dried out? If you can trigger a failure by heating the device with say a hair dryer, that's supporting evidence. But yeah, it might be some software. Or some component aging and changing its behavior slightly out of spec.
