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For a long time I had my HDD go to sleep after 5 minutes, only to find that 'something' urged it to spin up after some time. Then it would sleep again, and so forth.
Then I decided to do it the way KC Furge advised. The disk spins all the time, and the Asus takes about 11.5 Watts all day.
Now I have tested the 'goto sleep after 5 minutes' again, but only with radio off, that means: no WLAN. And with an energy meter I can see that now the Asus keeps sleeping all day long, drowsing a meager 4.6 Watts that way.
So, the WLAN causes all these unwanted spin ups!:mad:
Probably because someone scans the Wifi signals or tries to get in.
I have TKIP/AES and WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK configured, and as you might know the Asus keeps the PSK on the disk, so if I connect to it wirelessly it will also spin up the disk. My password comes from https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm
Now I will try to make the copy button start/stop the WLAN, to have the best of both worlds: an almost cold Asus that only spins the disk when absolutely necessary.:D
I provide this information in the hope it will prove useful for someone.
Regards,
Marc
Michele Spinolo
21-05-2008, 15:16
ciao Marc,
I usually use wired connection for my laptop, while I use WLAN for PS3 with WPA2-PSK.
When I turn on PS3 and it connects to the router the HD doesn't spin up (do you remember my post about twonky and PS3 spin up problem?).
I will try with my laptop and let you know.
ciao Marc,
I usually use wired connection for my laptop, while I use WLAN for PS3 with WPA2-PSK.
When I turn on PS3 and it connects to the router the HD doesn't spin up (do you remember my post about twonky and PS3 spin up problem?).
I will try with my laptop and let you know.
Do you have some results?
Marc
Michele Spinolo
25-06-2008, 02:43
Do you have some results?
Marc
ciao Marc,
I am facing tons of problems with my PS3 and WL-700: at the moment it seems I am not able to connect via Wi-fi, although It worked flawlessy for 1 month and with no reason it stopped working!
sorry!:mad:
ciao Marc,
I am facing tons of problems with my PS3 and WL-700: at the moment it seems I am not able to connect via Wi-fi, although It worked flawlessy for 1 month and with no reason it stopped working!
sorry!:mad:
Hi Michele,
Disable my hack to stop/start wlan if you use it, and try again.
There must always be a reason for a failure.
greetz,
Marc
Michele Spinolo
26-06-2008, 03:04
Hi Michele,
Disable my hack to stop/start wlan if you use it, and try again.
There must always be a reason for a failure.
greetz,
Marc
Ciao Marc,
atm I am not using your hack, and I perfectly agree I there should be a reason for everything but I am not able to find it!
I have KF firmware plus twonky 4.4.5 and emule running, nothing else.
TKIP (no AES) and WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK and PS3 sometime connects smoothly and twonky works fine, sometimes it's a mess to get the PS3 connected an Twonky is sooooooo slow. I also have a lot of DLNA errors.
I read PS3's wi-fi sucks, thus I think I will try wired connection to see if it makes the trick. I am wondering if the reason I had no HDD spin up with PS3 was it was not actually connecting to the router....:(
Ciao Marc,
I am wondering if the reason I had no HDD spin up with PS3 was it was not actually connecting to the router....:(
Sorry, i don't understand what you're trying to tell here.
My Noxon is also very slow in getting an ip-address from the Asus, and it never does with a stopped HD. So i changed the radio script a bit to make it start the HD if it starts WLAN.
But i also have configured the wireless interface to never start by itself. Now the web interface doesn't show the wireless associations (in staid it tells me that Wireless is disabled), and god knows what else it has disabled by default, which the radio script does not handle. So my whole setup is a bit experimental.
If I change something that makes the router reconfigure itself, it will stop WLAN in my case. But if i had wlan on by default, the same behaviour would start it without doubt.
AES is a nogo for the little Asus. I tried it with my computer and got very much lost packets. TKIP is the most you can get.
Actually I don't know why I tell you this. Never mind.
Love from Holland (we will be visiting Italy in september)
Marc
Michele Spinolo
27-06-2008, 05:14
Actually I don't know why I tell you this. Never mind.
Love from Holland (we will be visiting Italy in september)
Marc
ciao marc,
we are a little OT here but maybe we can provide useful infos.
My previous sentence meant the HD was not spinning up because it is possible at that time PS3 was not connected to the router (or trying to connect) even if it was switched on.
A good point is what you stated about encryption: maybe I could find a better trade off between performance and security level with a lower encryption setting...it worths to try! I will also try with a wiring connection an WLAN off.
So are you from Holland? I have a lot of Dutch friends I worked with here in Italy, most of them from Delft University!
What are you going to visit in Italy?