Kategorie: Energy

  • Time for some hardware changes — part 2

    Let’s see, what happend since part 1: Decision 4 … is fullfilled. The 8-port switches are in place, so this one 16-port switch is switched off outside my office times. Decision 5 … is fullfilled. I have only one phone in charge and it is connected via PoE now (part of Decision 4 too). Decision…

  • Time for some hardware changes — part 1

    As I mentioned in part 0, the story will now continue with updates here on tumblr. Decision 4: Today I ordered two 8 port 1000-base T switches with PoE. One of them will replace the big 50-port switch in my 19″ rack to save energy. I suppose, it will cut the energy to 1/5. The…

  • Time for some hardware changes — part 0

    … continuing a story, that began on Facebook. But I mentioned in my last post, I dump Facebook. So we need a transistion of the information to tumblr… What happens before? {TL;DR} I’m angry about my energy costs. I have 5200 kWh / year, which is here in Germany the amount of a 5 person…