- Firewall & Router Question
- Posted by Peter M on November 28th, 2004
On 27 Nov 2004, in uk.telecom.broadband, Alex Heney wrote:
Based on what statistics source ? Ignoring those using peer-to-peer,
there are probably number of 'home users' who would dispute that. I'd
suggest asking ADSLguide to run a poll on the matter, rather than make
a statsment about what portion of people keep equipment on, when their
internet service can be running 24h without extra charges (excluding a
small number of odd accounts with 50 hour limits or whatever!). Peter
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- Posted by Alex Heney on November 28th, 2004
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:28:18 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
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Faire enough.
I must say I'm surprised at that. Just about everybody I know
regularly turn them off when not in use.
Obviously we mix with different circles :-)
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- Posted by Alex Heney on November 28th, 2004
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:35:58 +0000, Peter M <us-mail@rocketmail.com>
wrote:
OK, based on people I know.
Which is, admittedly, a pretty small anecdotal sample.
That is a good idea :-)
I know it *can*, but leaving a PC on consumes power.
I can understand it if you are running web or mail servers, or
downloading things while you sleep, but I don't understand *why*
people would leave it on when not using it for hours at a time
otherwise.
I accept that some do, just to save the time it takes when booting up,
but I really would not have thought it a high proportion of non
"geeks" (and *I* am regarded as a geek by most people who know me).
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- Posted by Ivor Jones on November 29th, 2004
Alex Heney wrote:
There is a school of thought that equipment such as computers generally
behaves in a more stable way when left on at a constant operating
temperature. Switching on and off regularly, with the accompanying cooling
down and heating up effects is thought to prematurely age components,
particularly moving parts such as hard disk drives.
I don't particularly subscribe to this view, I'm just lazy ;-)
Ivor
