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24 minutes ago, Ginger137 said:

Hmm.. First site I looked at must of been off a bit. Still, especially at 100% they are power hogs and it's worth the extra money up front to buy more efficient hardware. That's also over the course of a year, your not going to see your bill shoot up a huge amount like that in a month, but it'll be a bit higher and add up. 

 

Plug in your watts here, you pay more than you realize https://www.rapidtables.com/calc/electric/electricity-calculator.html

 

 

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I understand what you're saying, and I'm not saying that these are the most energy efficient machines ever, but for the price of the machine ($35 for a Pi + $x for drives + $x for adapters to connect them to the Pi vs. $0 for a Dell + $x for drives), the added performance (I get about 120MB/s over 10/100/1000 with my free OptiPlex 330 and free drives) just might be worth the small added power cost.

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Just now, mrbilky said:

Wow you guys are still at itxD bet the OP never thought he'd get this advanced education!

It's mostly evolved into a different conversation discussing the usefulness of a NAS.

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On 1/5/2018 at 6:46 PM, mrbilky said:

Wow you guys are still at itxD bet the OP never thought he'd get this advanced education!

Mate, im dum lol :D

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On 1/5/2018 at 6:45 PM, cox1000 said:

 

@Jamiec1130 is entirely correct. An internet connection is not required for local network devices to function, to allow local networking between local devices. There is a difference between LAN and WAN, your LAN (Local Area Network) is the network that operates within your household (between devices). This can be using wireless or wired technology, and may or may not use hardware provided by your ISP. When you connect to the internet, you connect to a WAN (the internet), which is actually a network of lots of wide area networks. As such, you can transfer files on your local network without communicating over the internet at all, and the speed you experience is determined by the hardware that you have, and the technology you are using for networking them, NOT your INTERNET speed (stated by your ISP). I'm actually surprised that there hasn't been a TechQuickie on this, however this video may help with your understanding. 

 

 

This helped, thanks. My "wifi box" consists of a modem and router put together I think.

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22 hours ago, DarkPlatinum said:

This helped, thanks. My "wifi box" consists of a modem and router put together I think.

Yes it sounds like it. To reiterate, you don't pay for local network traffic and it is almost always faster than your internet connection. You to pay for external traffic, over the internet, and this is at the rated speed. 

Disclaimer : I might be wrong.

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18 hours ago, cox1000 said:

Yes it sounds like it. To reiterate, you don't pay for local network traffic and it is almost always faster than your internet connection. You to pay for external traffic, over the internet, and this is at the rated speed. 

Excellent. The reason why i thought that its a modem and router is, because my networking company provided the "wifi box"

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