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No wifi hotspot is using 110 watts. 110 watts is a fair amount of power - at $0.20/kWh you're going to add $16 to your power bill monthly. It's similar to lea

No wifi hotspot is using 110 watts. 110 watts is a fair amount of power - at $0.20/kWh you're going to add $16 to your power bill monthly. It's similar to leaving a desktop computer on 24/7.

slownews45 5y ago
My Netgear R8500 was 50 watts easily I'd say. My friends gaming computer DEFINATELY uses more than 100W. Basic computer use for cryptomining seems to use a lot more as well. It just doesn't seem like 100W for what this thing does is a ton.
- rconti 5y ago
  > Under load, the Netgear R8500 uses 21.5 Watts of power making it the most consumptive router we have tested [1] Of course a gaming computer uses more than 100w. Of course a crypto rig uses more than 100w. And that's not "basic computer use", it's the most power-hungry computer use. Meanwhile, my UniFi UAP-AC-Pro APs are powered via PoE and are using <4w. 1: https://www.legitreviews.com/netgear-nighthawk-x8-r8500-ac5300-wifi-router-review_178341/6 https://www.legitreviews.com/netgear-nighthawk-x8-r8500-ac53...
- brigade 5y ago
  More like 50 watts max, and 20 watts under normal load. The power supply can't even provide more than 60W. And gaming computers are more like 2-5W suspended, 20-50W idle/browsing, 200-500W gaming.
  - mcguire 5y ago
    Exactly. https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/R8500/R8500_UM_4jan2016.pdf https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/R8500/R8500_UM_4... The power supply for an R8500 gives 19V / 3.16 A DC maximum. And yes, a gaming PC can use a few hundred watts---that's why it has to have all of the thermal management and all of the hot air blowing out of it. P.s. https://kb.netgear.com/23003/Maximum-power-consumption-for-NETGEAR-WiFi-Routers https://kb.netgear.com/23003/Maximum-power-consumption-for-N...
  - ohyeshedid 5y ago
    I'm curious about the browsing figures. As someone that used a Surface Pro 3 for browsing, js or flash pegged it. I'm curious on a i7 desktop what the real average is for my browsing habits, and I'm going to have to test this. bah.

No wifi hotspot is using 110 watts. 110 watts is a fair amount of power - at $0.20/kWh you're going to add $16 to your power bill monthly. It's similar to leaving a desktop computer on 24/7.

slownews45 5y ago

My Netgear R8500 was 50 watts easily I'd say. My friends gaming computer DEFINATELY uses more than 100W. Basic computer use for cryptomining seems to use a lot more as well. It just doesn't seem like 100W for what this thing does is a ton.

rconti 5y ago
> Under load, the Netgear R8500 uses 21.5 Watts of power making it the most consumptive router we have tested [1] Of course a gaming computer uses more than 100w. Of course a crypto rig uses more than 100w. And that's not "basic computer use", it's the most power-hungry computer use. Meanwhile, my UniFi UAP-AC-Pro APs are powered via PoE and are using <4w. 1: https://www.legitreviews.com/netgear-nighthawk-x8-r8500-ac5300-wifi-router-review_178341/6 https://www.legitreviews.com/netgear-nighthawk-x8-r8500-ac53...
brigade 5y ago
More like 50 watts max, and 20 watts under normal load. The power supply can't even provide more than 60W. And gaming computers are more like 2-5W suspended, 20-50W idle/browsing, 200-500W gaming.
- mcguire 5y ago
  Exactly. https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/R8500/R8500_UM_4jan2016.pdf https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/R8500/R8500_UM_4... The power supply for an R8500 gives 19V / 3.16 A DC maximum. And yes, a gaming PC can use a few hundred watts---that's why it has to have all of the thermal management and all of the hot air blowing out of it. P.s. https://kb.netgear.com/23003/Maximum-power-consumption-for-NETGEAR-WiFi-Routers https://kb.netgear.com/23003/Maximum-power-consumption-for-N...
- ohyeshedid 5y ago
  I'm curious about the browsing figures. As someone that used a Surface Pro 3 for browsing, js or flash pegged it. I'm curious on a i7 desktop what the real average is for my browsing habits, and I'm going to have to test this. bah.