Comments on: The Fonera 2.0 can help you save money and reduce CO2 emissions http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/general/the-fonera-20-can-help-you-save-money-and-reduce-co2-emissions.html Blog of an entrepreneur Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:31:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Martin Varsavsky http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/general/the-fonera-20-can-help-you-save-money-and-reduce-co2-emissions.html#comment-220438 Martin Varsavsky Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:31:11 +0000 http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/?p=2780#comment-220438 well i did a lot of testing myself and I found no problem downloading torrents but i will report this well i did a lot of testing myself and I found no problem downloading torrents but i will report this

]]> By: Martin http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/general/the-fonera-20-can-help-you-save-money-and-reduce-co2-emissions.html#comment-220268 Martin Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:10:08 +0000 http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/?p=2780#comment-220268 Martin, I totally agree that it will be great to shut down PC's that are just used for download and leave only the small fonera for those tasks. However, as I pointed out in the <a href="http://foros.fon.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=5301" rel="nofollow">fon forum</a>, there are still stability problems and other usability issues to adress first. I started using the fonera as a torrent client, but when I saw that from time to time it hangs, I started again leaving my old dell laptop powered all day. The bad thing is that when it hangs this way (3 green lights on all the time) there is no other way to restart it than walking to the fon spot and reseting with the power plug. Martin, I totally agree that it will be great to shut down PC’s that are just used for download and leave only the small fonera for those tasks.

However, as I pointed out in the fon forum, there are still stability problems and other usability issues to adress first.
I started using the fonera as a torrent client, but when I saw that from time to time it hangs, I started again leaving my old dell laptop powered all day.
The bad thing is that when it hangs this way (3 green lights on all the time) there is no other way to restart it than walking to the fon spot and reseting with the power plug.

]]> By: Johannes http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/general/the-fonera-20-can-help-you-save-money-and-reduce-co2-emissions.html#comment-197320 Johannes Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:24:38 +0000 http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/?p=2780#comment-197320 Down/Uploading using 3W? My 2,5" hard drive with an USB converter consumes 3W on its own (even more at startup, my hub detects this as violation and shuts the port), and 2,5" may not be the disk of your choice (low energy consumption, but high price per GB). So 3W might be a bit unrealistic. But reality is still far less than the energy consumption of an ordinary x86 server (based on mini-ITX or similar) which some of us use for this task. Will the Fonera 2.0 send idle USB hard disks to standby? Down/Uploading using 3W? My 2,5″ hard drive with an USB converter consumes 3W on its own (even more at startup, my hub detects this as violation and shuts the port), and 2,5″ may not be the disk of your choice (low energy consumption, but high price per GB). So 3W might be a bit unrealistic. But reality is still far less than the energy consumption of an ordinary x86 server (based on mini-ITX or similar) which some of us use for this task. Will the Fonera 2.0 send idle USB hard disks to standby?

]]>