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Cheers, I haven't managed to melt a switch yet (it seems mine are rated to 50 C), although the main one is in a box with a load of power supplies so I wouldn't be surprised if it did happen.
I think I'll hold off upgrading for the moment, if I really need a separate LAN there's always the other port on the router.
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it seems mine are rated to 50 C
So was mine.
Think it was a Netgear blue box switch thing, an 8-port gigabit. Still melted it.
The ToughSwitch seems to be doing better, but then again... I've constructed a kind of shelving stack now so that the boxes aren't on each other so that hot air isn't feeding directly from one to another. The Ubiquiti boxes are all small, so it's 4 wide ceramic tiles as shelves, and 6 metal Smint boxes as shelf spacers. Now the heat cannot go from one box to another.
Velocio
A bog standard switch works perfectly well, but I melted my last one in the Summer months when the little space in which it occupied (well ventilated but a small space) got too hot. I started looking around for a switch that didn't cease to work when the switch temperature exceed 45'c (room temp was 34'c)... and the Tough Switch is rated to 55'c operating temperature whereas most consumer switches I found were rated lower. Larger corp switches are rated far higher, but also massive and heavy and tend to come with noisy small fans where the ToughSwitch is passively cooled.