Ultimately your router needs to go in or near the center of the most important area of your home.
I dont want to put my desktop on the floor.
It depends on how dusty your floor is but you may want to check every few months.
The current trend is to get your computer up off the carpet and onto your work surface.
If you don t have a choice you ll want to buy some compressed air and regularly blow out inside your computer.
Can you put a pc tower on carpet.
If you have a home with multiple floors you also want to consider which floors you frequent the most.
For example cigarette smoke and pet fur will exacerbate those problems and putting your desktop pc on the floor will ensure more of that dust hair and debris will get sucked into the intake.
On the floor keeping your pc on the floor is widely considered the worst place due to the amount of dust and pet hair that can get inside your tower especially on any type of solid flooring.
I have carpeted floors i just have a cut piece of plywood that my tower sits on so it s not directly on the carpet and i haven t had any issues.
But carpets are really good at trapping dust pet hair and all manner of other things.
There s a science to balancing airflow through.
I can t put it on the desk because it could literally kill the kids if it fell off on them or even the dogs.
Wherever you want the fastest speeds aim for the center of that location.
You can use pantyhose as a make shift dust filter.
It s easy to put off cleaning and have dust build up where your pc is sitting.
Bought some lexan and i have my pc sitting on a couple boards of that.
How often depends on how much dust is in.
But this isn t always possible and many people leave their computer tower on the floor often on carpet.
No not exactly on the floor.
And your computer well it s a giant vacuum cleaner.
If you do keep your tower pc on the floor remember to dust it out regularly probably more often than you ll need to if you keep it on a desk.
This is what i do.
Sure you can it s fine.
In a multilevel home consider the floor or ceiling.
Also it would look just stupid for a tower that size on the desk.
This isn t the best option for various reasons and you should really have your pc tower.
If you don t want to stand it on the carpet and don t have a desk a cheapo solution is just to buy a small sheet of hardboard and stand it on that.