> mm I'm not sure... there would be more heat loss in the garage than in my
> room. The garage has a concrete slab floor - which tends to stay nice and
> cold, even in the summer. The overhead door is insulated, but cold air
> still seeps in. If I were to guess, I would say it would stay "warm" - not
> "overheated". But I don't know for sure. I don't even know if I am going
> to give this another try this winter. I'm a little strapped for cash, and
> I'm not sure I want to invest the money in whatever equipment is needed to
> finally get a Wifi signal out to the garage, or deal with the hassle of
> running a CAT line out there...
What I had pictured was equal insulation, of course heat loss is a
good thing. As for running CAT5, my brother's house came wired for
most of the rooms, we just had to terminate the cables and plug them
into the router. There was one room he wanted that wasn't wired so we
got some fish tape and ran the cable up into the attic, down the wall
of both stories into the crawlspace and then up the wall where he
wanted to install the the jack. After we bought the fish tape it only
took us an hour or so. Of course if the garage is detached that might
be a little different. For WiFi a range extender would probably do the
trick and run you about $50.
>
> What is another issue for me - is componant failure. My OD'd linux box has
> a PSU thats going out - as determined by the loud rythmic popping the PSU
> makes when its powered on. Had the computer been out in the garage, and not
> in a location where I can monitor it physically... its possible the PSU
> would have failed and perhaps taken out other parts of the computer
> (mainboard, RAM, CPU, etc)
>
If the only indication you have of the problem is when you power it
on, you would still be there when powering on. If the computer is
running 24/7 and you're not with it that long there is always a chance
it could fail while your not in the room, for that matter hardware
could fail when you're right there.
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