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Yeah that would be a concern, place in a well ventilated area away from your work.
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Return it.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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If it's just a break in smell then the next one will do it also!
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yes, I will return it and go back to NetGear router...
diligent hands rule....
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Looks good to me.
RTL8367
The problem with these Realtek chipsets is the lack of full documentation of supported features. (Some management features can be enabled remotely by a special Ethernet packet)
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It probably cost them more to produce that document than to build the router
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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If it smells like it's burning, yes; but then you'd not be asking. I'd not give a refund for a complaint like "smell".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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If it is in the first 14 days, you would even if the complaint is "smell", "don't like the colour" or "the leds are too bright for me"
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Two things. First, when it gets hot enough, you can make fried egg yolks on it. Second, good joke for the first of April.
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Maybe it just once fell back to smoke signals due to congested WiFi channels.
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Maybe the person who assembled it, dropped his lunch in there 
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My advice is to return it. Those volatile compounds that it emits are best avoided.
I had the same issue with a D-Link router a few years back. Smelled terrible. I got it replaced and the new unit had no issues.
I have a bunch of Raspberry Pi-s. Some of them are odorless, others smell like hot electronics even after weeks of burn-in. So it depends on model, batch, assembly line, etc. Sometimes you just get a unit that has residual whatever on it and that residue will evaporate ever so slowly when used. May take weeks or even years.
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Need to dump the bad packet bin?
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Two things cause smells: burning dust and burning insulation. If dust, shake and/or vacuum and/or spray with electronics cleaner. If burning insulation, you should be able to tell the difference, return it. If it is unfamiliar, try burning some insulated wire on the stove and you'll then recognize it.
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New electronics equipment can be smelly indeed. Depends highly on the soldering process and the (over) use of flux most of the time.
Routers usually don't have cooling fans to get rid of those smells quickly. Suggest to place a fan in front of the ventilation openings to blow or suck away the left-over evaporating molecules.
Our new "talking" rice cooker is also smelly. Happily these things have cooling fans 
To Bug or not Debug that is the Q.
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Ok, I got it. I don't do it again... maybe
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Not meant as criticism at all, the song by Benny Sings is really my favourite at the moment!
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I don't smoke that weed  
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Wonderful.
Both of them.
Thanks.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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A lemon, sir? Not on my watch! (5,5)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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