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Re:I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled) by mprev on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:59AM (#30194046)
Yeah, I get that it's not insignificant but it's not just a router, it's also uploading my packets to a fast moving object around 340 miles away. I'd like for it to be less but I'd also like for Openreach to put a green cabinet near my house and give me VDSL.

To put it in context, my PC isn't on 24 hrs a day but it's almost certainly drawing at least 250W for the 9 or 10 hours it is on. It's just a cost of working from home.

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Re:I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled) by vel0city on Thursday February 03, 2022 @12:36PM (#30195632)
> almost certainly drawing at least 250W

You should throw a meter on it and actually check. My recent-ish Ryzen 2600 desktop, 1070 GPU, and 27" monitor use <100W when not doing something like intense gaming. Even then, under intense gaming its often between 300-500W of usage. YMMV, obviously.

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Re:I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled) by seized on Thursday February 03, 2022 @01:01PM (#30196068)
If he has older monitors or multiple monitors that can be significant load. My older Dell Ultrasharp 24" monitors are around 80-100 watts each last I measured.
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