> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCI PowerMacs
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Trey Christensen
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 8:30 AM
> To: PCI PowerMacs
> Subject: Re: IPNetRouter
>
>
> The main problem I see with using an old such and such
> machine running such and
> such software as a router, isn't that it is harder to
> setup, or may have to be
> rebooted occasionally, but power consumption. My RealTek
> RT314 uses 7.5 watts
> MAX. (7.5 volts x 1 Amp rating on power brick) An old IIfx
> or 486 or whatever
> has a power supply that uses between 150-300 watts.
That is the maximum rating...
> It
> seems to me that $120
> for the router will pay for itself in electricity costs
> alone, especially since
> that extra heat from the extra computer will make the AC
> run a bit more. Plus I
> am sure most of us have a finite amount of space in our
> homes, so it was well
> worth the saved effort of setup, saved space, and
> electricty savings to lay out
> one hundred and twenty bones for a nice little
> firewall/router with a built in 5
> port 10/100 hub. By the time you shell out $90 for this
> software, get a second
> ethernet card, get an AAUI transceiver, and get hub or
> swith for the network,
> and then pay electrity costs for a few years, it seems to
> me that you are losing
> money hand over fist, as well as having to manually set up
> the software.
>
> If you still want to do this, there is a great guide at
>
<http://www2.linkedresources.com/teach/ipnetrouter/dualethernet.html>
>One AWESOME advantage of IPNetRouter is you can share your internet
connection
>with MacIP using an ethernet to localtalk adaptor from farallon or
asante, or
>run the Laserwriter Ethernet Bridge software on another dedicated
machine. The
>upshot of this is you can have your old, non ethernet machines have
email and
>web access, even a mac plus! Of course I would spend the $80 or so on
the
>adaptor instead of running another machine 24/7 and burning up
electricity like
>it is going out of style.
My 486 router runs Fresco which cost $00.00, the hardware cost the
same (all old 'junk' that I had kicking about) and the power
consumption is about 20W. this may be more than your dedicated router
but it will take quite a long time to run up that much of an
electricity bill.
NB I configured this unit for economy, Vga disabled, cpu underclocked,
notebook hdd and no fans.
also I used a slimline desktop unit so it takes up less space.
Ben.
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