Magents on a router? Stupid?

Well I went out today and bought a wired router (waiting for 5ghz wireless N to hit Japan) for just hooking up two computer simaultaniously when webbrowsing etc. (Solo connection no router when gaming).

I went out bought the cheapest I can find. A Logitech Lolopot 5 ports hub. Japanese explains the name and ports vs port.



The packaging took a while to open. and the quality of the product was sad but I open up instructions to see if anything interesting was there and It hit me.

It showed how they "cleverly" put magnets on the bottom so you could stick it to stuff.

These are not regular magnets they are STRONG I ripped em out. put on on the top of my thigh and held one underneath (I am a heavy built guy) and I was able to move the magnet quite easily thorugh my leg. I tried this on my stomach and back and it still worked.

The magnets actually magnitized my screw drivers so i chucked em (electric device specific ones ) before I even touched it they were just laying next to it.

I was wondoring if these are actually dangorus to my notebook. Considering many people such as my self have the router within 0.5m of their computer why Logitech would come up with this genious idea. On the box they even say put it by your computer (using the magnets.)

 

wow, those magnets are strong keep those AWAY from your notebook specially from your hard drives. i own a portable hard drive (WD) and i placed it in my drawer, i forgot i had a very powerful magnet there, the ones they use in laboratories. the next morning when i connected it to my computer, the hard drive was corrupt

i don't think thats a logitech, it says on the label logitec without the "h". logitech wouldn't design an accessory like that.

 

Oh nice catch on the branding >.< I knew somthing was up!!!

For 19$ it performs stunning 4 computers hooked only 1000kb/s loss

But those magnets I cant believe they would do that.

 

Well I just did further research and found out it is a Elecom product which is a "budget" brand. In america usually labled rockfish i believe.

 

great buy. lol,, maybe those magnets would come in handy in the future

 

I bet the magnets cost more than the router does Could they be neodymium?

 

No clue

 

You just try beating your screwdriver with a hammer or put it in an oven to get rid of the magnetism.

 

Thanks. will any metal object work then? I dont have access to a hammer

 

It doesn't matter what you hit the screwdriver with, although it shouldn't be a wimpy or soft item. The idea is to disorganize the alignment of the grain in the metal of the screwdriver by subjecting it to repeated blows. The magnet caused much of the grain of the metal to align which gives rise to the magnetism.

 

Nope, static magnetic field cannot affect your HDD, SD, or flashdrives memory cards, these devices are actually immune to magnetic fields. A variable magnetic field will induce a variable electrical field which could affect somehow some components, but this is not the case with these strong magnets.

I'm quoting the below comments from an article

Bill Frank, executive director of the CompactFlash Association said this. "A magnet powerful enough to disturb the electrons in flash would be powerful enough to suck the iron out of your blood cells"

The same goes for hard drives. The only magnets powerful enough to scrub data from a drive platter are laboratory degaussers or those used by government agencies to wipe bits off media. "In the real world, people are not losing data from magnets," says Bill Rudock, a tech-support engineer with hard-drive maker Seagate. "In every disk," notes Rudock, "there's one heck of a magnet that swings the head."

 

how do you explain my portable hard drive getting corrupted?

 

Because you threw it in the drawer

Seriously, it could just be a coicidence. One more example, I have an external GPS, very small, with a magnet strong like a tornado, and I use it all around my laptop, including that this portable GPS (USB port) has also electronics, and it is not affected.

 

The only reason I would keep those magnets away from a hard drive, is because of how strong they are. They could pull the plates slightly with that kind of power, which could cause all sorts of various trouble.

 

HDD's have been made with that in mind, there is actually a strong magnet moving the R/W heads back and forth.

 

LOL, maybe your right, maybe it was just a coincidence..

 

Just use a ac coil to de-mag. If you have a tape erase it will work too. It will slowly loose magnetism over time. Go ahead and beat the screwdriver then throw it away. Go to the store and buy a new one. Beating the screwdriver will do nothing to the magnetism, but will give you something to play with. Heat will effect it, but will destroy the screwdriver if you get it hot enough to do any good.

 

I have a small metal screwdriver at work that is constantly getting magnetised somehow. I need it to maintain itself as non-magnetic for assembling certain cylinder heads (Volkswagen 5-valve per cylinder heads in particular).

So when I get angry that it picked up my valve locks while pressing them in place, I take it over to the vice, lock it in place, roll over the Oxy/Acetylene tanks, then make the tip of the screwdriver cherry red.

I let it air cool for a few minutes, then use it as I need it to operate.

It works great for me.

 

I'd be more concerned about this 'Logitec' some dude made in his apartment, and considering it's a router, could be beaming you to god knows where... Or anyone to you.

The guy who made this could be connecting to your computer right now thanks to this router

 

someone is too paranoid

 

Interesting thread...I would still be reluctant to place a magnet near my HD, but I have noticed that I can stick magnets to my flash drive with no data corruption!

 

Is "paramagnetodia" Hey I invented a new word, today I patent this word!

Paramagnetodia: A paranoid attitude towards using magnets.