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Thanasis posted on Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:37:50 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> On 03/16/2015 08:31 AM, Duncan wrote: |
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>> Thanasis posted on Sun, 15 Mar 2015 21:44:54 +0200 as excerpted: |
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>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151113 |
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>> So it's /not/ a standard ATX power supply, |
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> If the case has enough space to accommodate it, then all you might have |
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> to do is drill a hole or two for the fixing screws. |
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>> 2) This PSU /does/ say "super low fan noise" in the specs, and the |
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>> reviews seem to agree, tho the noise level in dB isn't actually |
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>> quantified for comparison purposes. |
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>> I'd be a bit skeptical of the feature claim on its own without an |
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>> actual comparable dB quantification, but the reviews do alleviate my |
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>> skepticism somewhat. That may be an additional reason for the price. |
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> Most probably this PSU is going to be totally silent for you. Why? Take |
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> a closer look at the third one image, the small label near the PSU's fan |
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> (rotate the image 180 degrees to read it): |
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> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151113 |
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I see it now. Thanks, both of you. =:^) (Someone else mailed me directly |
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pointing that out as well. Maybe they don't want their address posted |
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publicly on the list and thus didn't post there, so I won't be specific.) |
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And someone else mailed, saying lucky me, they can still only get 1.5 |
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Mbit DSL. FWIW, I'm actually on a much lower plan now, ~6 Mbit/768 Kbyte/ |
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sec down, I think 1.5 Mbit up (I'm actually not sure on the upstream, but |
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it's certainly slower). I do use it for some higher quality youtube |
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streams, and of course for larger sources tarball downloads, but not |
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really for much else. (Netflix, etc, the common modern high-bandwidth |
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usage, is DRMed with, AFAIK, closed source decoding required, which makes |
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it not an option, for me.) |
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But my theory has always been that in-home LANs really didn't really take |
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off at 10 Mbit either -- it wasn't until 100 Mbit fast-ethernet that |
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speeds were fast enough to really start doing more than limited stuff |
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over the LAN instead of local storage or at least cache and sneakernet. |
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I actually believe there's a breakover threshold somewhere between 10 Mbit |
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and 100 Mbit, arguably near 50 Mbit or 64 Mbit (8 Mbyte), and that once |
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access speeds exceed that, it becomes much less trouble to store things |
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centrally (once in the home with 100 Mbit LANs, once on the net with |
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50-100 Mbit plus WANs) and simply download on demand. |
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If that's the case, and I think it may well be so with me, usage will |
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increase only somewhat as speeds go up between say half a megabit or even |
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simply always-on 140 kbps ISDL, thru 30 Mbit and possibly up to near 64 |
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Mbit. But somewhere around 64 Mbit, 8 Mbyte, I expect I'd reach a |
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usability threshold and my usage would take a huge jump, much as it did |
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when I left dialup and switched to always-on. |
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So I really haven't seen the need for more bandwidth, at the still |
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significantly under 64 or 100 Mbit speeds previously on offer. Yes, I |
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use more bandwidth than I used to with my 608 kbps connection, but not / |
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that/ much more. But were I to go gigablast or even the so-called |
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ultimate plan, IIRC 150 Mbps, I expect things would change and I'd both |
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consider it worth it, and try my best to avoid dropping below that |
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threshold ever again, must as when I first got always-on DSL, there |
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really was no going back to dialup. |
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With this router I've been thinking about for awhile and now actually |
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plan to start procuring parts later this week after I do some more |
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research over my coming days off, my own network should be ready for it, |
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making it an option I can practically look at and probably eventually |
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get, even if "eventually" ends up being another year or two or five... |
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To date, I've not really considered it that much as I've known with the |
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current router I couldn't make use of the over-threshold speed if I /did/ |
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upgrade to it, I'd get some upgrade, but still be in the below-threshold |
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doldrums where I'd not find it particularly useful. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |