[SLUG] Wake on Lan

[Mike Bennett]

On 2/26/07, Stephen O'Neill <soneill84 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Mike Bennett wrote:
> > However, if the point of using WoL is to save power by not having a
> > machine on 24/7 then this idea is kind of void.
>
> Exactly! Thank you :D
>
> I wince whenever the "always on" machine suggestion is brought up as
> then you're having some machine on being utilised 1% of the time but on
> 100% of the time, it makes no sense.
>

I leave one machine on, my fileserver. This is because I very
frequently need to access data from my home system WRT work and other
stuff. However all my other machines are left powered off. I don't yet
have WoL set up because at the minute, I have no need to access other
machines at my flat outside of when I'm there. These machines even
have WoL specifically disabled so that they don't even use the standby
power of having the NIC waiting for a WoL packet.