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It's a great piece of hardware, of which I've used dozens for various purposes. But they draw ~10 times more power than, say, a cheap Linksys wifi router. So if

It's a great piece of hardware, of which I've used dozens for various purposes. But they draw ~10 times more power than, say, a cheap Linksys wifi router. So if all you're after is a SoHo wifi router, it might not be the best way to go.

RL_Quine 8y ago
They don't. Mine draw under 10W, which is well within range of a Linksys thing.
- Tharkun 8y ago
  Mine draw around 10W idle, about 15W when active. My Linksys and TP-Link trinkets draw under 2W idle (which I'm guessing is my power meter's minimum value), and not much more when active.
  - RL_Quine 8y ago
    Power meters generally don't well measuring low loads, 2W sounds like an error.
hkt 8y ago
That's fair, but I don't know of any SOHO routers I trust, which is what led me to it. It's a tradeoff, but the same tradeoff being made by these mikrotik users. There is this one the horizon though: https://up-shop.org/up-ai-edge/233-up-net-plus.html https://up-shop.org/up-ai-edge/233-up-net-plus.html It'd make a fine router in the same vein, no word on power usage though.