On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 09:23:50PM -0500, Chris Buechler wrote:
> Depends on your machine and cost of power. The 5 watts of an
> ALIX/other embedded router vs. most PCs will save you roughly 80 watts
> of power usage (some PCs will be quite a bit more, some less). That's
A PC system can easily ta
On 10/12/11 2:23 am, Chris Buechler wrote:
Depends on your machine and cost of power. The 5 watts of an
ALIX/other embedded router vs. most PCs will save you roughly 80 watts
of power usage (some PCs will be quite a bit more, some less). That's
about 700 Kwh a year of power savings assuming 24/7
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:07 PM, ernst wrote:
>
> How expensive is your electricity? When you look at it from a 1-2 year
> total cost of ownership of keeping that old PC running 24/7, you are
> (eventually) further ahead to buy one of those embedded computers (Alix /
> Soeokris) or that shiny new
Hi,
Op 8 dec 2011, om 18:07 heeft ernst het volgende geschreven:
> How expensive is your electricity? When you look at it from a 1-2 year total
> cost of ownership of keeping that old PC running 24/7, you are (eventually)
> further ahead to buy one of those embedded computers (Alix / Soeokris)
On 8/12/2011 18:07, ernst wrote:
On 07.12.2011 19:15, Air Zonk wrote:
Hi,
Before I go buy a Linksys from Best Buy,
Can I use a Pentium III class PC, plus a dual-ethernet NIC, plus a
WLAN PCI card as a wifi router for my house? This would be a less
expensive option with more features.
Thx,
On 07.12.2011 19:15, Air Zonk wrote:
> Hi,
> Before I go buy a
Linksys from Best Buy,
> Can I use a Pentium III class PC, plus a
dual-ethernet NIC, plus a WLAN PCI card as a wifi router for my house?
This would be a less expensive option with more features.
> Thx,
>
Z
How expensive is yo
On 2011-12-08 05:44, patrick wrote:
On 8/12/2011 9:49, Seth Mos wrote:
On 8-12-2011 9:21, Chris Buechler wrote:
Though that'd be pretty ugly too given the 11 Mb limit of USB 1.x
you'd find on such a box, aside from the fact USB NICs tend to be ugly
in general driver-wise, and I can't recall see
On 8/12/2011 9:49, Seth Mos wrote:
On 8-12-2011 9:21, Chris Buechler wrote:
Though that'd be pretty ugly too given the 11 Mb limit of USB 1.x
you'd find on such a box, aside from the fact USB NICs tend to be ugly
in general driver-wise, and I can't recall seeing a USB wifi card
whose chipset sup
On 8-12-2011 9:21, Chris Buechler wrote:
> Though that'd be pretty ugly too given the 11 Mb limit of USB 1.x
> you'd find on such a box, aside from the fact USB NICs tend to be ugly
> in general driver-wise, and I can't recall seeing a USB wifi card
> whose chipset supported hostap mode.
Ralink us
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Adam Thompson wrote:
> One caveat: many WLAN PCI cards require PCI 2.1 busses, and will not
> function in the PCI 1.0 / 1.1 busses often found in Pentium-III-era PCs.
> Found this out the hard way. Don’t know about pfSense support, but the
> usual way around this
+ pfsense + dual ethernet NIC +
wlan PCI card as wifi router
Hi,
Before I go buy a Linksys from Best Buy,
Can I use a Pentium III class PC, plus a dual-ethernet NIC, plus a WLAN PCI
card as a wifi router for my house? This would be a less expensive option with
more features.
Thx
aper" side...
thx,
Z
From: mo...@ymkatz.net
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 19:43:18 -0500
To: list@lists.pfsense.org
Subject: Re: [pfSense] Silly question - using a PC + pfsense + dual ethernet
NIC + wlan PCI card as wifi router
At work, our first machine was a PIII with 5 NICs and it worked very well.
At work, our first machine was a PIII with 5 NICs and it worked very well.
As others have said, make sure you have enough RAM and it should work fine.
One other thing to watch out for is that you need to make sure you have a
wireless card that is supported. Check the pfSense documentation on the
On 8/12/2011 1:19, Alexandre Paradis wrote:
sure you can do that
2011/12/7 Air Zonk mailto:airzon...@live.com>>
Hi,
Before I go buy a Linksys from Best Buy,
Can I use a Pentium III class PC, plus a dual-ethernet NIC, plus a
WLAN PCI card as a wifi router for my house? This wo
On 8/12/2011 1:19, Alexandre Paradis wrote:
sure you can do that
2011/12/7 Air Zonk mailto:airzon...@live.com>>
Hi,
Before I go buy a Linksys from Best Buy,
Can I use a Pentium III class PC, plus a dual-ethernet NIC, plus a
WLAN PCI card as a wifi router for my house? This wo
sure you can do that
2011/12/7 Air Zonk
> Hi,
>
> Before I go buy a Linksys from Best Buy,
>
> Can I use a Pentium III class PC, plus a dual-ethernet NIC, plus a WLAN
> PCI card as a wifi router for my house? This would be a less expensive
> option with more features.
>
> Thx,
>
> Z
>
> __
Hi,
Before I go buy a Linksys from Best Buy,
Can I use a Pentium III class PC, plus a dual-ethernet NIC, plus a WLAN PCI
card as a wifi router for my house? This would be a less expensive option with
more features.
Thx,
Z _
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