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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.

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.

The value in automation is consistency rather than time saved directly.

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.

Cicadas

NGE is cosy…

So we might have found where all the missing mass in the universe could be hiding? In force balls?

Neat.

The posted article does address Peking University’s achievement, and the same treatment working in the US.

It’s a bit weird how it’s ‘a world first’ in the US though.

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 diet 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.