[ale] About that firewall machine [Was]Re: [ale] unidentified processes

[John Wells]

I'm interested in power consumption as well.  I've
finally got my laptop router working well, but I
really hate to leave it on 'round the clock if I'm
throwing money out the window.

I'm assuming Radio Shack would be the place to find a
meter like this?

Thanks,
John


--- Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> Thompson Freeman wrote:
> > 
> > Well, I'm familiar with at least one of the
> broadband routers, and if it
> > wasn't this late I could remember which of them I
> set my daughter up
> > with. 8-/. And the '486 idea certainly has cost
> benefits. My goal here,
> > however, is more aligned with having open source
> control with minimal or
> > near minimal power consumption. I'm not certain to
> go down this route, but
> > I find it very interesting (especially when I look
> at the nest of power
> > cables crawling around behind the desk, and under
> some of the other
> > furniture around here. I haven't tripped the
> circuit breakers yet, but
> > I've got to be grazing the edge around here.)
> 
> Yeah, I know how it is.  Fortunately, I've recently
> moved to a new
> home.  I'm putting together an office in the
> basement, which means I've
> got free rein of the place.  I've rewired this room,
> adding two
> circuits, one for my computers, another for all else
> (lights, shredder
> and such).  I've added a wall and placed all my
> boxes behind it, so as
> to reduce the noise.  It's still in the works, but
> it's getting there. 
> I've come pretty far from working off a laptop while
> sitting on a
> beanbag. :)
> 
> As far as the power issue though, I don't know how
> much current the
> average computer pulls, but understand, devices only
> pull as much juice
> as they need.  The power supply might be rated at 15
> amps, but you're
> not pulling that.  The box will generally pull the
> most power when it's
> powered up.  If you've got a headless 486 with two
> nics, the amount of
> power consumed is going to be very little. 
> Certainly more then some
> imbedded device though.  Curious as to whether or
> not it might be
> possible to run a couple of boxes from a single
> power supply.  I would
> expect that it could handle the load, just a matter
> of rigging the
> proper connections.
> 
> I guess I could just stick a meter on one of these
> boxes and really get
> a decent measure.  For me, it's more the noise and
> heat generated then
> the power used.  Anyone ever actually measured the
> amount of current
> their box pulls???
> 
> 
> --
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> 
> "...the system (Microsoft passport) carries
> significant risks to users
> that
> are not made adequately clear in the technical
> documentation available."
> - David P. Kormann and Aviel D. Rubin, AT&T Labs -
> Research
> - http://www.avirubin.com/passport.html
> 
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