ok, the cost of leaving a 200watt machine on all day, all year is: 20c/5hour, that is $350.4/year, if adsl is avalable, get that, the cost difference between dialup and a server/firewall or an adsl modem is nearly nothing

sorry about raiing on anyones parade

To be fair, i set up a kubutu system for my aunt recently, and jsut used a dialup modem on, a dynalink 1456ve, works like a treat

Cheers

Andrew

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat@zcat.geek.nz> wrote:
> Yep, as soon as I posted it, I knew that comment would be greenie bait,
> which is why I'll never make a greenie.

Not so much a greenie thing as a cost thing. Leaving machines on 24/7
adds to the power bill, and a lot of oldies are on a pretty tight
budget.

I'd probably set up something with an external modem and 'always-up,
retry on fail ppp' connection. When they want to use the net just turn
the modem on and the connection can come up. Otherwise turn the modem
off and it will leave the phone line free for normal use. Very simple.
And if they just want to do the basic web/email/cardgames thing
there's nothing wrong with a gnome desktop.
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