(Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk
I recently bought a Belkin 10/100 5-port ethernet switch (product number F5D5131-5). [...]
That's the first mistake. Belkin :-/
Does anyone recognise this behaviour on the part of Belkin switches?
How hot is it? Despite its label saying "designed in California" I've found my Belkin router to be exceptionally sensitive to heat, the first thing to crash and one of the first power supplies to fail last summer. I run it upside down (air vents are on the underneath) and try to keep my house cool using tricks I'm adding to http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2006/lynn#howtonotmelt at the mo.
Hope that helps,