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If you pay a lot for electricity, you could get heat cheaper with a heat pump, gas furnace, or simply adding insulation on the roof/walls so any heat you do add lasts longer.
Re-insulating a house is a substantial cost that can take a decade to pay back in utility bills.
It all depends on your baseline...
Lower power draw, very quiet and more than powerful enough to push 25gbit with cpu left over for VMs.
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"probably consuming like x100 the power" is greatly exaggerated. A typical PC might have an idle power consumption of less than 50 W, while a very small computer with ARM little cores might have an idle power of 2 ... 3 W, so at most the power consumption ratio would be 20. However even that is not realistic because a computer or appliance with less than 3 W power consumption will not be able to route 10 Gb/s or fast…
> For 25 Gb/s Ethernet links, a commercial router is unlikely to be much cheaper or to consume much less than a standard PC. EDIT: I linked to a switch by mistake. This router has 12 x 10G SFP+ and 2 x 25G SFP28 ports and costs $595 It appears to be routing between 13 to 39Gbps depending on the rule complexity. https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2004_1g_12s_2xs#fndtn-specif...
Here‘s a MikroTik Router with 28 Gbit/a throughput: https://mikrotik.com/product/CCR1036-8G-2SplusEM
$1300 and up to 73W
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"probably consuming like x100 the power" is greatly exaggerated. A typical PC might have an idle power consumption of less than 50 W, while a very small computer with ARM little cores might have an idle power of 2 ... 3 W, so at most the power consumption ratio would be 20. However even that is not realistic because a computer or appliance with less than 3 W power consumption will not be able to route 10 Gb/s or fast…
> For 25 Gb/s Ethernet links, a commercial router is unlikely to be much cheaper or to consume much less than a standard PC. EDIT: I linked to a switch by mistake. This router has 12 x 10G SFP+ and 2 x 25G SFP28 ports and costs $595 It appears to be routing between 13 to 39Gbps depending on the rule complexity. https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2004_1g_12s_2xs#fndtn-specif...
I'm always amazed by people who don't bat an eye on the perspective of having a home server, sucking up electricity 24/7. In this case replacing a typical router (which consumes like a lightbulb), with a full-fledged PC (probably consuming like x100 the power). I guess some people around the world have quite cheap utility bills! For me, it's either a Raspberry Pi type of power consumption, or else a server that only…
I'll bet there's a few nitpicks with your hobbies where you trade a lot of time/money/something that I don't necessarily understand. And that's okay.
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"probably consuming like x100 the power" is greatly exaggerated. A typical PC might have an idle power consumption of less than 50 W, while a very small computer with ARM little cores might have an idle power of 2 ... 3 W, so at most the power consumption ratio would be 20. However even that is not realistic because a computer or appliance with less than 3 W power consumption will not be able to route 10 Gb/s or fast…
> For 25 Gb/s Ethernet links, a commercial router is unlikely to be much cheaper or to consume much less than a standard PC. EDIT: I linked to a switch by mistake. This router has 12 x 10G SFP+ and 2 x 25G SFP28 ports and costs $595 It appears to be routing between 13 to 39Gbps depending on the rule complexity. https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2004_1g_12s_2xs#fndtn-specif...
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> For 25 Gb/s Ethernet links, a commercial router is unlikely to be much cheaper or to consume much less than a standard PC. EDIT: I linked to a switch by mistake. This router has 12 x 10G SFP+ and 2 x 25G SFP28 ports and costs $595 It appears to be routing between 13 to 39Gbps depending on the rule complexity. https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2004_1g_12s_2xs#fndtn-specif...
That‘s a switch, not a router. Much simpler hardware. Here‘s a MikroTik Router with 28 Gbit/a throughput: https://mikrotik.com/product/CCR1036-8G-2SplusEM $1300 and up to 73W
This[0] has a $600 MSRP, with twelve 10Gbps ports and two 25Gbps ports. It's ~32W before you add the SFP+ modules, and upwards of 50W if you have all modules populated.
In the benchmarks they list, this can provide somewhere on the order of 13Gbps to 40Gbps of routing, depending on exactly what you're doing. (Smaller packets will lower these numbers, but if you care about bandwidth you're unlikely to be worried about smaller packets... at that point, you probably care more about kpps.)
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I have 10G in Tokyo and I think it’s about $60 USD per month vs $40 for 2G. It’s definitely overkill but it sure is nice to download a 60GB steam game in a minute or two.
The problem with 10g is that most servers aren’t on 10g yet and if you’re transiting a peering connection of a smaller ASN at some point, even that is likely not 10g
I am thinking about building my own, but then comes the maintaince of all of the hardware / software. For me that would be fine, but for my family, it would be a total PITA to manage, and any downtime would be horrible.
So, stuck with UDMP for the moment, until they either fix their problems, or alternatively I decide to bite the bullet and build this on top of linux.
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"probably consuming like x100 the power" is greatly exaggerated. A typical PC might have an idle power consumption of less than 50 W, while a very small computer with ARM little cores might have an idle power of 2 ... 3 W, so at most the power consumption ratio would be 20. However even that is not realistic because a computer or appliance with less than 3 W power consumption will not be able to route 10 Gb/s or fast…
> For 25 Gb/s Ethernet links, a commercial router is unlikely to be much cheaper or to consume much less than a standard PC. EDIT: I linked to a switch by mistake. This router has 12 x 10G SFP+ and 2 x 25G SFP28 ports and costs $595 It appears to be routing between 13 to 39Gbps depending on the rule complexity. https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2004_1g_12s_2xs#fndtn-specif...