I think it's a reflection.

I think upside-down will cook something.

Turning the bebox upside down has been quite common advice given in the past few years (some posts on thinkbroadband.com, bethere and various other forums) - and it seems to help a little. I may put it on its side to save space, especially with use of another router to handle those duties.

Upside-down? nah...

Don't shoot the messenger! A Bethere engineer originally suggested this.

It would make some sense, if I remember my physics from over a decade ago. Cooler denser air would displace any hotter air warmed up by the circuitry, and form a convection effect through the large vents.

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Don't shoot the messenger! A Bethere engineer originally suggested this.

Who?

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Don't shoot the messenger! A Bethere engineer originally suggested this.

It would make some sense, if I remember my physics from over a decade ago. Cooler denser air would displace any hotter air warmed up by the circuitry, and form a convection effect through the large vents.

It would make zero sense. If the inlet and oulet vents were to be reversed, (and I maintain there are some at round the top rim, though quite narrow), then they would have been manufactured reversed.

Also the components on the main card will all be on one side, I expect the top but don't know. It doesn't really matter. If you turn it upside down then they will have even less unrestricted air space, whichever side they are mounted.

Either prop a side up as I suggested or stand on end as BatBoy suggested. Either cools it enormously. The design does not promote an ambient temperature through-flow. These two solutions do.

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If the inlet and oulet vents were to be reversed, then they would have been manufactured reversed.

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The design does not promote an ambient temperature through-flow. [My] solutions do.

You can not have it both ways.

That isn't both ways.

1. Turning it over does no good. If it was meant to be like that the vent would be on the top.

2. The unit is designed to be mounted upright with the aerial at the top. Lifting it up from the horizontal to the vertical will increase the flow of cooler air.

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2) Bridge the BeBox TG585v7 as a modem with the Vigor 2920N

If you've not made a decision yet, I would go with the above. I use my BeBox (TG585v7) bridged to my Draytek 2820Vn and it works superbly.

Bridging removes the problematic parts of the 585v7, and as a simple modem it works very well.

Or, you could go for overkill and get one of those cheap laptop cooler trays. The extra fans on those could cool down the box.

I use a 2920 with a 585v7. It's a very solid combination. Alternatively, DG834g v3/v4 works for me on plusnet instead of the speedtouch.

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