Reduce network power consumption.

[Paddy]

1 kW/hr = ~9p

[Nowhere]

electricy in uk must be expensive

even here it will easily run you $20CDN / month to keep a PC on 24/7.. we officially pay $0.058 / KW/h but with taxes and other bs. it is closer to $0.13 KW/h

One good thing about living mostly in dorm (OK, not the only one...) - to the point that I don't mind gettin P4 Prescott and some 21' CRT monitor...

[Fat Tone]

The answer is simple: Go Gas!

Just got these figures from uswitch.com about my supplier:

Gas tariff
Units 3.21p per kWh
Units above 4572 kWh p.a 2.37p per kWh
All prices shown are inclusive of V.A.T. at 5%

Electricity tariff
Daytime units 13.26p per kWh
Daytime units above 900 kWh p.a 9.62p per kWh
Night time units 3.82p per kWh
All prices shown are inclusive of V.A.T. at 5%


Seriously though, my monthly costs for gas and leccy are £32 and £27 respectively, for a family of four in a house full of PCs and gadgets.

[Paddy]

OK. Anyone have a gas powered PSU?

[agallag]

I know you went through a lot to get it, but I'd ditch the ProLiant. That thing is a beast, and I'm pretty sure a modern dual-core single socket little machine could outperform it. You can even get desktop boards with SATA RAID 5 now. If you get some mobile racks, they can be hot-swap too!

[Evildead666]

Paddy:

Have you tried to touch the shielding of the network cable and not get a buzz?

A few times, i have noticed i got a bit of a f**king shock when plugging and unplugging network cables.
I then measured it to be 90V on a multimeter, i can't remember whether it was DC or AC, but it was quite a buzz

Maybe that could explain the extra consumption ?
I think that i may have missed a ground wire somewhere int he network, and its doing this because of that.
A while ago it stopped, maybe it was when i had my other 4-port GigE switch instead of this 8-port GigE... the former was a "pro" version of a netgear switch (metal case), and the second is a "home" version (placcy crap)... i might try back again and see...

I mean, i have actually seen sparks when the cable shielding touches the case!!!

[Evildead666]

when talking about cable shielding i mean the metal surrounding the connector and pins.

edit ooh, i have to change my sig

[Evildead666]

Paddy:
Sorry to bother, but was wondering if you had tried to touch your ethernet cable grounding shield to see if you got a shock or not, or maybe use a multimeter first or something...

Anyone else tried this ?

I've had this problem sometimes at work too...

Only measured it at home tho, and 90V is nothing to be sneezed at...