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A comment on Ask HN: How much electricity does a WiFi router consume?.

Re:Ask HN: How much electricity does a WiFi router consume? by asjo on Monday September 05, 2022 @06:33AM (#32722724)
My Netgear R6350 wifi access point running OpenWrt 21.02.03 and 5 GHz only uses ~4.5 W in casual use, and goes up to ~6.8 W when I run iperf3 full tilt through it.

Measured using a watt-o-meter like this: http://seacourse.dk/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Home+Electricit...

They can be borrowed in libraries in Denmark, same as books.

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Re:Ask HN: How much electricity does a WiFi router consume? by pwrsysengineer on Monday September 05, 2022 @12:38PM (#32726246)
Thank you for the tip about the library! I just put a hold on one at my city's library here in Canada.
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