AX 50 Heat Issue
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Good day;
I just purchased my Archer AX 50 router yesterday and have been using it most of the day. It is sitting on my desk and I was going to move it to a new location in my office and noticed that it was quite hot to the touch. Is this something I should be concerned about? Are other AX 50 users experiencing the same issue?
Just wondering if I should return it.
Apprreciate any and all input with thanks;
Gord
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@woozle I don't think AX 20 heats up as the AX50, broadcom chip is ARM so it should be better overral..
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I had same issue and near this the place af router is a small cabinet... I have cnc and i did a "cooling frame" and now is flying ;) The fan is getting power from usb, and running so silent... no connection problems, stable speed! 
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@Solla-topee There is no difference. Measured temperatures varies a little bit 49 - 50 grads. And this is for plastic case. Think now how hot is the heatsink from the inside or even the motherboard itself ( must be aditional 20 grads over 50). In time this could affect CPU soldering and the router will fail. And do not tell us that you release this router and didnt know that is very hot, and USB 3.0 works very very bad, so bad that data transfer rate is lower than USB 2.0 specs. This excuses are not acceptable. For me is the third product from your company that is under expectations and DO NOT respect your claimed specifications.
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@AntonK This intel CPU has a co-processor with aditional 4 cores designed to work separatelly only with wifi section. So, is much powerfull than looks at 2 x800 Mhz. Probably because of that is so hot.
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@VA3TWT I have the same issue, and I have never heard of someone having to put a fan on a unit. Totally unnacceptable.
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Just found you have replied on another post, I replied you there:
https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/209296?page=3
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@Dompii The heating has nothing to do with that plastic because is not heating on top. The problem is under the router. If plastic there has ~52 degree, be shure that the aluminium heatsing from inside has over 80 degree...
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My Archer AX 50 reached top temperature of 54 degree ( under the router), at 25,7 degree room temperature. This is unacceptable.
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@VA3TWT I already done that.
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