As most of you know, I live on the east coast. I'm currently experiencing extremely hot temperatures both inside (no central air) and outside the house. Most of the time I just grin and bear it but lately I've had some problems with my A.V. and internet that might be heat related so I've come here to ask the experts.

My Main HT rig downstairs consists of an Oppo BDP connected to an Onkyo 905 receiver. Never had a problem until the heatwave started. The Onkyo which runs hot on it's own is in an enclosed AV cabinet, see pic below. Now during Blu-Ray play-back the temp of the room combined with the receiver itself must've been well over 120f. Thing is the screen would freeze in a pixelated way. I know it wasn't the Bluray player because the disk would continue to play and produce sound but the video portion would freeze. The only way to get it "unstuck" would be to turn off the receiver for a about a minute and restart it and the set up would be fine for bit, then it would repeat. Anyone ever heard of this? I'm going to get a small fan for the back of the dealio and hope that solves it.


Second problem.
Son complaining that my wireless network is down. I check all the settings, connections network settings etc... the things broadcasting but her laptops not picking it up. Soooo I take the laptop upstairs to the wireless hub, bingo, it picks up the wireless signal. Take it downstairs and poof, it can't see it anymore. I can only assume that the heat and humiidity is such that the wireless signal is having trouble going through it AND the intevening walls and floors. Whatcha think?

Worf