rallee2{at}comcast.net wrote:
> Hello again Jim
>   I'm going to try to answer your questions and comments fairly
succinctly and inline for clarity.  Any expanding can be done later if you
so desire.
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: inkleput{at}isp.com
>> No problem on the top post.  At the moment I have a laptop with wifi and
>> a desktop on a wire.  I'm trying to be ready for the event in which I
>> would put on more than 2 computers, and can't budget broadband right
>> now.
>>
>    Someone has mentioned a router which has a serial connector and if
such is both available and of decent quality regarding features, security,
configuration possibilities etc that is probably the easiest way to go. 
> 
>  However a router in modern terms is just a mini-PC that does a very
limited set of applications 

[snip]

Yes, that can be done, certainly - but in terms of hydro usage and its 
cost (since nothing is really free!), you're talking about a huge 
difference in cost after a year's 24/7 operation...  even 100W x 8760 
hours = 876 kWh at even 8 cents per = $70.08 in hydro... more than 
enough to pay for a standalone router, without all the worry of hard 
drives, operating systems, booting it, configuring it, and maintaining 
it, and in the summer, getting rid of the heat it generates.

Having no 486 here at present to hook up to my power consumption meter 
(Kill-A-Watt, available from thinkgeek.com for about 3/8 what I paid for 
it!), I can't tell you what the actual consumption of said beast might 
be, but if the hard drive's as old as the CPU, I can tell you I don't 
want to listen to that whine!

-Derek

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