looked at the insides of the d-link box, found that the CPU gets way WAY too hot for a small CPU....so i fashioned a temporary heat sink using what i had.....

pic 2...layered dime and quarter to funnel heat up and away from CPU (using sticky-tack as thermal compund of sorts) and used a coke can aluminum to funnel heat away and out to function as heat spreader....not ONE dropped packet since....and before i almost got a blister from touching that CPU.....

Very cool. I might have to take my Linksys apart and see if I have a similar problem. I like that fix, cheap!

Normally thermal engineers thermocouple these parts to make sure they operate within specs for the environment class they're designed for. A lot of chips run hot to touch normally, nothing wrong with that. But if you're getting some errors or strange operation then doesn't hurt to try cooling it down. Some bad thermal design if that's what's happening...

By the way - if you want some real heat sinks give me the dimensions and I'll see what I have.

its like a small PC chipset size.....i need a real heatsink....i'm on wireless now.....and its running fine....