Originally Posted By: JHZR2
One dollar a month wasted away in 18 million different places still adds up. Maybe if we didn't buy a new Mercedes worth of taxes every year it would be different. But I want my house to be paid off and to buy a second house at the shore, so minimizing waste is important. I know I'm not Jewish, so my cheapness must be from my Scottish genes.
For something like FiOS, the interface is not yet such a commodity that the open source community would not screw up. I'd stick to the manufacturers firmware for that and update to the latest version on a regular basis, they do discover bugs and fix them for the first year or two of a new product release, after that they only fix major problems like compatibility with new equipments.
Routers typically use 1A 12V power supply, that's 12W, 288Whr / day, 8.64KWhr / month under maximum load. The typical load is likely 1/10 of that during idle, and therefore 0.864 KWhr per month, at 12c/KWhr it is only 10c/mo.
The headache to troubleshoot any compatibility issue on the FiOS side of the line would clearly be worth more than 10c/mo. If you want to save money drop the FiOS and go to DSL or dial up.
One dollar a month wasted away in 18 million different places still adds up. Maybe if we didn't buy a new Mercedes worth of taxes every year it would be different. But I want my house to be paid off and to buy a second house at the shore, so minimizing waste is important. I know I'm not Jewish, so my cheapness must be from my Scottish genes.
For something like FiOS, the interface is not yet such a commodity that the open source community would not screw up. I'd stick to the manufacturers firmware for that and update to the latest version on a regular basis, they do discover bugs and fix them for the first year or two of a new product release, after that they only fix major problems like compatibility with new equipments.
Routers typically use 1A 12V power supply, that's 12W, 288Whr / day, 8.64KWhr / month under maximum load. The typical load is likely 1/10 of that during idle, and therefore 0.864 KWhr per month, at 12c/KWhr it is only 10c/mo.
The headache to troubleshoot any compatibility issue on the FiOS side of the line would clearly be worth more than 10c/mo. If you want to save money drop the FiOS and go to DSL or dial up.