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#318556 29-Jan-2025 08:48
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And now for something completely different ...

 

The NY Times - Wirecutter    Published January 6, 2025

 

Your Wi-Fi Router Is Ugly. Here’s How to Hide It Without Blocking Your Signal.

 

"Aesthetically pleasing options that actually worked:"

 



A sleek, modern crate

 




A rustic wicker basket

 




A lidded bamboo box

 

How about an ugliest router competition?  🙂





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  #3336873 29-Jan-2025 09:17
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Cool ideas. I wonder if this will become a trend!




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  #3336935 29-Jan-2025 09:58
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As always...

 

Temu router storage case


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  #3336938 29-Jan-2025 10:10
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johno1234:  As always...  Temu router storage case

 

 

 

"Wooden WiFi Router Storage Box with Woven Rattan, Router Shelf and Modem Cable Organizer, Power Strip and Cable Management".

 

Very retro - looks like an early 1950s model.

Possibly uglier than the router that it is supposed to hide.   😟





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  #3336939 29-Jan-2025 10:11
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Wasn’t there a thread somewhere for people doing similar for ONTs?





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  #3336943 29-Jan-2025 10:15
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MadEngineer:  Wasn’t there a thread somewhere for people doing similar for ONTs?

 



ONTs are better looking than routers - and they tend to be discretely hidden in cupboards.  😉

 


EDIT - My ONT is in a large comms cupboard, in the middle of the house, with router and switches and UPS.





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  #3336958 29-Jan-2025 11:17
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Sideface:

 

 

johno1234:  As always...  Temu router storage case

 

 

 

"Wooden WiFi Router Storage Box with Woven Rattan, Router Shelf and Modem Cable Organizer, Power Strip and Cable Management".

 

Very retro - looks like an early 1950s model.

Possibly uglier than the router that it is supposed to hide.   😟

 

 

Yes! My parents had furniture that exactly matched that thing. Probably quite retro-hip these days?

 

 


 
 
 

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  #3336959 29-Jan-2025 11:22
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Your great grandmother possibly had a cover to hide the candlestick telephone.


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  #3336961 29-Jan-2025 11:36
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I hide mine by using in-wall Ethernet cables 😁


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  #3336973 29-Jan-2025 11:57
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This would work for me: 
History of Cardboard Boxes: When Were Cardboard Boxes Invented? - Supply  Chain 24/7





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  #3337000 29-Jan-2025 14:03
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Meh, My routers are prettier than all those! don't shame the tech!


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  #3337004 29-Jan-2025 15:11
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Stolen from another website - maybe don't do it like this!
r/funny - the spider was spotted in the ceiling of a house.


 
 
 

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  #3337010 29-Jan-2025 15:34
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My router looks like this:





Audiophiles are such twits! They buy such pointless stuff: Gold plated cables, $2000 power cords. Idiots.

 

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  #3337011 29-Jan-2025 15:36
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Sideface: ONTs are better looking than routers - and they tend to be discretely hidden in cupboards.  😉

 

Funny guy! Only if you breath down the installers neck while they work, and don't leave the room for a single minute!

 

ONT's in NZ homes are about as discrete as a black eye. 

 

I'm the only person I know with an ONT in a cupboard. Everyone else has theirs proudly blinking away in the middle of the dining room wall.

 

 


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  #3337015 29-Jan-2025 16:11
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tripper1000:

 

Everyone else has theirs proudly blinking away in the middle of the dining room wall.

 

 

Same... but living room. Not my choice - recently moved into the place.  I solved the blinky lights with some white electrical tape (took a few layers). Hid the thing behind a fake plant too.


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  #3337033 29-Jan-2025 17:17
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"Yo modem is so ugly it gives Freddy Krueger nightmares"... oh wait, sorry. Wrong thread.

 

 


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