However in both old-PC cases the cost of and waste of the electricity to run them 24/7 may make them not the lower cost option.
Of course scrapping them is also wasteful, so it's a judgement call. Frustratingly my router before last can now be reflashed with OpenWRT, but my present router and it's immediate predecessor can't yet. Of course I scrapped the router before last. :-( I have to say as someone who tries to reuse stuff where sensible that not so long ago I took a good quality Pentium tower, fully working though with a non-Y2K BIOS to the tip for recycling and they said it was "too old to be any use" Apparently if it can't sensibly run Win7, they're not really interested! On Thu, 2014-12-11 at 10:31 +0000, Ian Park wrote: > I must admit that's the approach I've taken - cost me about £40 for a > low profile HP low profile desktop with 512MB RAM and a built-in NIC > (even shelled out a fiver for a separate graphics card...) - stuck in an > extra PCI NIC from my drawer of bits, installed IPFire and that was it. > I could even add a wireless NIC for a blue interface if I wanted. OK, it > has a fan in it, but it's not noisy. > > I -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
