2009/4/9 alan c <aecl...@candt.waitrose.com>: > I have a machine on 24/7 gently seeding various torrents and my > pragmatic solution is to choose the oldest slowest machine that can > cope, in my case a PII 350MHz. I have not done any measurements but my > guess is that such a machine will consume relatively low power, > obviously I turn the monitor off.
You might be surprised if you check it. I have an old Dell optiplex desktop PC which currently functions as my firewall - running IPcop. I checked the power consumption and it's ~90W. I also have a viglen which I will use to replace the Dell, and that consumes 8W. As the viglen has only one ethernet port I plan to use a USB ethernet adapter to supplement that. Unfortunately the one I have maxed out at 6Mb/s which is useless when my broadband is 20Mb/s. Apparently the Apple branded USB ethernet adapter is better, so I'll probably get one of those instead. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
