[clug] ADSL modem recommendations

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

Don't know is Alastair will admit to his soft side but one reason for
spending here is presumably to save the planet rather than his wallet.

So the question is: does the manufacturing of the replacement plugpack
(and delivery etc.) negate the running savings?

cheers

Keith Goggin wrote:
> Alastair D'Silva wrote:
>> Currently I'm looking at getting a DLink RT-N16 which can run OpenWRT, 
>> and
>> has everything I need except ADSL 2+, it consumes around 7W (although
>> hacking may bring this down - many devices use linear regulators 
>> internally
>> which bleed the extra power off as heat - swapping to a switchmode 
>> plugpack
>> of the appropriate voltage can save significant power), costs around 
>> $140 on
>> Ebay and provides 802.11n as well as a couple of USB 2.0 ports (which 
>> I need
>> to make it into a 6LoWPAN router).
>>   
> Assuming this is always on 7Watts x 24Hours x 365Days =  61.32 kwh per 
> annum
> 
> 61.32 kwh @ say 15 cents per kwh = $9.20 per annum
> 
> Assuming the ~$140 replacement plugpack will save you 50% of energy cost
> 
> Is it really worth it?

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Eyal Lebedinsky	(eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)