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Something to keep in mind is that even at idle, a PC will probably run at 50W or so. This would cost $80-100/year to run where I live, which isnt insignificant.
by ac29 9y ago
Something to keep in mind is that even at idle, a PC will probably run at 50W or so. This would cost $80-100/year to run where I live, which isnt insignificant. Unless you are using it as a NAS, need very high speed OpenVPN (>100MBit/s), or other things that a PC can do best, you're much better off with something like an ER-X, which has a max power draw of 5W, and has no problem doing gigabit line-speed routing/NAT/etc.
- ktta 9y agoTrue, power consumption should be considered. I guess doing this would be a good choice if someone has a NAS already running. >you're much better off with something like an ER-X I pretty much recommend a plain jane router which can run DD-WRT for anyone. All this is clearly overkill, and more importantly useless for most people. Another choice is getting a cheap NUC like x86 device and get AP-only devices for good coverage.