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Where do you hide your internet router?

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Boopear · 06/06/2020 14:24

I am desperately looking for inspiration! My Wi-fi router + booster box are currently housed in a charity shop find - a old wooden radio cupboard thing which does the job of hiding all the plastic gubbins/has a very useful cable feed but which I have grown to hate (too deep for room/looks really out of place).

I'd ideally like to replace it with something a lot shallower in the industrial wood/metal style, but still with some sort of way to hide all the kit/hopefully feeding cables out the back somewhere. As I am seemed to have hit a dead end, I wondered how everyone else hides their internet hardware? There must be an aesthetic way of doing this (apart from hiding stuff in tv stand which is in another room)! Please give me some ideas before I go mad...

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donquixotedelamancha · 07/06/2020 09:58

it's hidden because they are ugly things

Really? Mine is just a small box.

Sparklingbrook · 07/06/2020 10:00

Mine is a very small box and no uglier than the landline phone. Confused

SierraHotel · 07/06/2020 10:01

Ours is on the tv unit. It sits on top of the dvd player, next to alexa.

Sparklingbrook · 07/06/2020 10:02

Should our Alexas be in a cupboard?

PhoneLock · 07/06/2020 10:02

Why hide it? Do you want people to think you don't have internet access?

Because it has distracting flashing lights on it and a multitude of cables trailing from it. It also jars with the decor of the room, so it is hidden in an antique cupboard.

We have two others that aren't hidden.

EnglishRain · 07/06/2020 10:06

On an enclosed shelf on a desk in the study. Love it being tucked away.

Flymetothetoon · 07/06/2020 10:14

Mine is a mini me version of the Sky Q box so it just sits next to it on the tv stand. Also I like to see that all the lights are green and it's doing its job!

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