True, you could send encrypted data via morse code. Nothing but a pure tone.

I have a 3600 in a NAS and it idles at 25w. My mobo luckily runs fine without a GPU. I pulled it out after the initial install.

I did go back and test and I don’t see the bandwidth limited around 750mbits. I upgraded openwrt since I originally setup QoS. Now I can get my full connection speed if I set the limit artificially high.

I’ve used this for several years as my home router. I find sqm limits the throughput 10% but I disable it for the ingress anyway. Super reliable so far.