On Saturday 09 October 2004 8:50 pm, Ian bell wrote:
The remote access is the one I had missed. Hard to do without a static IP.
For quite a while (when I was on BT Broadband) I used Dyndns.org and found their service to be top notch. They supply update scripts for Linux.
With dialup dynamic IPs make more sense as in general there are less dial in ports than users, but broadband is treated by many more people as always on, so you don't reduce your IP address usage by using dynamic addressing.
I think the jury is still out on that one. ISTR Jason Clifford who operates ukfsn.org saying he was surprised how many ADSL users still switch off their PCs every day (I know I do for one).
This is a habit I really want to get into. I currently never turn my home machine off, I don't care about the electricity costs but worry about the environmental impact of everybody doing this. I should also delve more deeply into other power saving measures (like spinning down hard drives) and accessing the processor speed step options that (I think) are available on this AMD 64 system board.
Anybody know if a WOL packet can be sent via the internet/an ADSL router ? It would be handy to be able to remotely start my machine for the odd occasion that I need to access it from afar.
Wayne