> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Caouette
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 12:00
> 
> Are we talking fan noise? Hard drive noise?
> 
> Also a comment was made about power. What are we talking?

The general comments about how a PE2850 is overkill in the described home
environment.

> 
> On 5/20/2014 2:59 AM, Giles Coochey wrote:
> 
> 
>       On 20/05/2014 02:12, Chris Bagnall wrote: 
>       
> 
>               Forgive me for saying so, but that's a massive 
> overkill for routing a 15Mbps connection. Granted, it'd be 
> entirely appropriate if you were routing multiple gig 
> transits in a datacentre environment where the power 
> consumption might be justified, but in a home environment, 
> you're just burning through electricity for the sake of it. 
> Of course, if you're going to run pfSense as a VM under a 
> hypervisor with several other VMs, then I take all the above 
> back :-) Kind regards, Chris 
> 
>       Not to mention that if I ran a PE 2850 at home there 
> would probably be complaints about the noise!!! Those things 
> *scream* in the audible sense!!! 

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