I am pretty sure this is a heat problem and nothing else.
I did some tests with the following results:

• The plug can boot and operate with both 1 GBit and Wifi for several minutes if the device starts at room temperature (not plugged in before)
• The difference in energy consumption between 100Mbit and 1000Mbit is approximately 1 Watt
• If you deactivate Wifi energy consumption drops by approximately 0,7 Watt
• while running stable it is not as hot as while crashing/rebooting
• After crashes/constant reboots there is a very faint smell of burned electronics if you put your nose right next to the openings
  

In conclusion I assume that cooling is just not good enough for stable operation when using the more energy extensive features at the same time (Wifi, Gigabit).

hi,

i've encountered several problems integrating the guruplug in my network.

• If I connect the plug with a gigabit switch before booting, the plug will not complete boot and reboot
• If I connect the plug with the same switch after successful boot, the plug will crash

I read the latest threads in this forum and realized I am not the only one who has experienced these problems.
Can anybody tell if this is hardware or software related? Depending on the answer I would consider returning my plug.
Following the suggestions in these threads I've temporarily connected the plug with a 100Mbit switch.

• In order to access the plug using the cable connection I still have to tell it to switch wlan from AP mode to client mode
• Following that I have no internet access

So I edited /root/init_setup.sh to give the access point a different IP (192.168.1.1 belongs to my router) and to "ifup eth0"
Furthermore, I added the line "iface eth0 inet dhcp" to /etc/network/interfaces .
This finally got me internet access. Now I am wondering: What I am doing wrong? It should not be that complicated, should it?

Thanks for reading
tno