> Tried it once with a c650, the ethernet port gets smothered at around 200kps > making it less than useful for cable. > A cheap beige powermac doesn't suffer this limit and also provides a good medium > for connecting 68k macs as well as latter macs. A router is also a good idea. > > Aren't concerned about my guestamatted through-put because your not on cable? > http://www.macunix.net:443/ is worth a read as is > http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/ > > A cheap, throw away pentium and a couple of nics will do the same job from a > floppy if you wish, add a hdd and it will make a good appletalk file server. > > Cheers all. ;)
Worth considering. I bought an independent "nat" router that runs on 9 watts, but may want greater security and configurability in the future. 100 watts, run all day long, costs about $57 a year (based on 6.5 cents/KWH, may be higher in your region). In 5 years that's about $285, just for the POWER. If the unit should take 200 wats, the power costs double, over $500. Unless one really needs the configurability or extra computation capability, this may not be a cost effective solution over years of use. That's why I was interested in a unit that would run for 30 Wats or less. There are reasons to use a program-onself router/firewall, but saving money is not one of them. A low power relatively modern "green" computer could save its own cost over a few years, so using these older machines is not necessarily cost effective in continuous operation. That is why I was asking if anyone has measured the power usages of these machines, the documentation I found was inconsistent and also doesn't really represent the actual in-use power usage. If anybody has power use figures that include any "green" PC's, as compared to the Quadras/ and Power Mac's, that would be an interesting comparison. With a disk that shuts down, and sufficient RAM that it does not need to page, the computer could be running in low power mode most of the time and use little power. There is of course no need for power hungry peripherals, except for the nic cards. That is a reason the floppy boot would also be useful -- it can't page, wasting power on a hard disk. Thanks Gordon Elliott -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
