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Constructing A Low-Power 2U Wireless Rack-Box

Posted by timothy on from the every-household-needs-one dept.

adelayde writes "Recently we decided to build ourselves a custom rack-mountable box that we could use as a web and DNS caching proxy and which would offer flexible wireless networking facilities and have an uniterruptible power supply. The result was a 2U rack-box with dual wireless networks built upon a low-power Via EPIA MiniITX motherboard. The box has two wireless networks built in with external antenna connectors, locking switches on the front to avoid tampering, a battery to give at least 20 mins of autonomous operation, a low wattage power supply and most importantly lots of blue LEDs :)"

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  1. Damn Blue LEDs by josh3736 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Bah, I hate those damned blue LEDs anyways.

    (I was going to post a link to an article/long thread where a bunch of people bitched about blue LEDs, but I can't find it at the moment... Damn.)

  2. small computers by wahsapa · · Score: 0, Redundant

    i 3 mini-itx

    1. Re:small computers by pavon · · Score: 0, Redundant

      Sure it will, you just have to know html.
      I <3 character codes