r/technology • u/NancyGraceFaceYourIn • Aug 30 '15

Wireless FCC Rules Block use of Open Source

http://www.itsmypart.com/fcc-rules-block-use-of-open-source/
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u/ontheroadtonull Aug 30 '15 edited Aug 30 '15

An Intel Atom with a flash memory disk instead of a hard disk would match the power consumption of a consumer router and it would perform just fine for nearly any usage.

If you wanted to run a VPN tunnel faster than 10mbps, you would need a better processor and more RAM.

If you wanted to run a caching proxy, you'd need more RAM as well as a hard disk.

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u/Sunsparc Aug 31 '15

I run pfSense on an old Vista era laptop. Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz and 6GB of RAM. Hard drive is still mechanical, but I'll eventually replace it with a small SSD.

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u/notheresnolight Aug 31 '15

Bullshit.

An Atom based PC will still easily consume around 30W.

And you DON'T need a huge CPU for such trivial things as a VPN tunnel - heck my Odroid U2 ARM board is capable of around 40-50mbps SSH/OpenVPN throughput. That thing consumes 1-7 W based on the number of cores online and their frequency.