OpnSense running on an ex-lease HP i3-something SFF desktop. Added several cheap half-height GigEth PCIe cards for the LAN bridge.
It is way over spec for what OpnSense needs but it was cheap and extensible.
UPS power supply.
There’s a tangle of PoE injectors which makes me sad. PoE PCIe cards appear to be ludicrously expensive here for no apparent reason.
They do, the UEFI.
That rating from that PSU will be the max it can supply, it is very unlikely that a consumer router is pulling 5A.
Your router firmware might even expose its power consumption if you are lucky.
I have the same/similar setup. My wall-warts are just plugged into the UPS.
Nobody’s going to get hurt or die?
Even then, if you are exhausted then someone probably will get hurt or die.
We will when your president does!
gets coat
That’s what I was thinking.
None of this scam makes any sense.
You mentioned you have VDSL. So you’ll still need your VDSL modem.
You will probably be able to configure it in pass-through mode or something similar so it will only do the modem functions and not the routing functions.
Then you can use anything you like as a router.
I use OpnSense on a dirt cheap ex-lease x86 SFF desktop. I also filled it with PCIe NIC’s. The only down side of that is it’s power-draw.
True, it’s the reason I can’t help them.
Fortunately I use linux at work and at home for years now.
The rest of my family apparently hate themselves and use windows… I can now just use the excuse that it’s too long since I’ve used windows and can’t help.
Back in the before times we called that a ‘dividend’ and the company would pay you one of they did business well and made profit.
Then the dark times came and the ‘speculators’ arrived, caring not for the dividend but for the price itself. Expecting it to go ever on up. The dividend was forgotten.
Business didn’t have to be good and profitable it just had to have ‘promise’ and ‘venture’. They propped each other up, made their prices up. Each leaning on each other with no foundation each nor to share. They cared not, for they had a ‘system’ and means already their own to sustain themselves.
The people looked on in horror, knowing the ‘bubble’ must burst in the air and not settle gently to the ground and rest easy. Power they had not, only the ‘sight’ of their incoming doom.
Your ISP will have a block of IPv4 address space. Go to any of the websites that will tell you your IP address, some might even tell you the block (otherwise other sites will tell you what the block is). Your ISP might even just tell you this.
E.g. your public IP might be 12.34.56.78 and the block might be 12.34.0.0/16.
You can give the block to your vendor saying you’ll be coming from one address in that range. That way no matter what IP you get issued it’ll be allowed.
They sometimes get consequences, say in the EU, but then the orange idiot starts crying about “unfair [word salad] tariffs” and… well, yeah, no consequences.
Everything he says the just the ‘pump’ on phase.
That site is unusable on FF mobile.
It has some craptastic scroll animation thing happening and have disabled the FF reader mode somehow.
Which is a shame, I’d like to have read it :-(
They might answer the wrong way you see…
I use several dirt cheap ($20) tp-link branded 1Gig cards, they probably just have a crappy realtek chip.
Absolutely no issues.
But, again, is just a simple home network.
No idea, I’m not monitoring power consumption at all.
I’m just assuming that the Intel CPU based system will idle at X Watts, peak as Y Watts, and that an ARM based appliance would idle at X and peak lower than X.
If any thing, I noticed that my UPS batter didn’t last as long during an extended ded outage once I deploy the SFF PC.
Also, TCO, if I save $100 on the price of the device (that draws more power) that is a lot of power savings required to break even.