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Wouldn't you save on power bills (not to mention space) by replacing this with a router running custom firmware?

• mindcrime 14y ago
  Absolutely. But it works, I've gotten used to that particular box sitting in that particular spot for years (and it serves as a platform to stack books anyway), and the power cost is probably negligible anyway. So, given all the other things I could spend time on, why would I bother futzing around with that? And I think that's kinda the point about a lot of these kinds of stories. Everybody knows that there is a better solution, but inertia, lack of resources, and or risk related to the new solution, keep people from doing anything about it. So, one day sooner or later (probably sooner) the power supply in that thing will crap out, and I'll bite the bullet and reconfigure my network to use my wireless router to do all that stuff. Unless... I think I may have another one of those power supplies in a box in the closet somewhere....