WIfi booster question.
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Guru
- Location
- Glastonbury Somerset
We leave ours on even when we go on holiday.
Yellow Saddle
Guru
- Location
- Loch side.
Yes it will cost you to leave it on, but the cost is minimal. We can calculate it for you if you can tell us how many watts it consumes. It will be somewhere on the unit.
Really!!! I will have a look on the instruction leaflet.
BTW......I had to get my grandson to get it up and working.
@Yellow Saddle . The online information tells me the usage is 3 watt. No other information. Is that 24/7 or when I am on the internet.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Whenever it is switched on. If you power it from a bicycle dynamo when in the Conservatory it should be a good un
Yellow Saddle
Guru
- Location
- Loch side.
That's 24/7.
It is extremely little. Your electricity cost is probably about 14p per kwh. In 24 hours your extender will consume 24 x 3 watts. That's 72 watthours. In a year, it will consume 72 x 365 watts. That's 26280 watthours. . In kwh (your suppier's mesuring unit) that's 26280/1000 = 26.28 kwh. Assuming it costs 14p per kwh, you are paying 26.3 x 14=3.68 pounds per year to keep it plugged in and using it.
Since a beer costs 1.34 pounds, I'd rather not have extra wifi and two extra beers instead. But, the choice is yours.
Caveat: As we're speaking, someone on here is tapping away at a calculator and will correct me in 1-2-3...nevertheless, bask in the cheapness of it all while you can.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
Turning it on and off when you need it would be a pain. Would it have to be reconfigured every time?
Ours is on the landing and stays on 24/7.
We have 4 smart TVs, Hive central heating, plus 2 iPads and 3 mobiles all running on WiFi. This list will only get longer.
Edit I forgot the 3 alexas. Stupid things.
Ours is on the landing and stays on 24/7.
We have 4 smart TVs, Hive central heating, plus 2 iPads and 3 mobiles all running on WiFi. This list will only get longer.
Edit I forgot the 3 alexas. Stupid things.
I'm surprised you have wifi back there in 1978, the last time a beer cost £1.34
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
£1.59 for a little over a pint. Buy three for £3 at moment so £1 a pint give or take.
sleuthey
Legendary Member
- Location
- South Gloucestershire
Just leave the dam thing on. The annual cost is negligible compared to your broadband fee
Yellow Saddle
Guru
- Location
- Loch side.
I'm not a bloody hipster. I drink real beer.
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
It's not about the cost. The huge issue is that all these millions and millions of little modern gizmos that have an 'insignificant' standby/background consumption and are peppered liberally around our homes all add up and together we are adding dozens of power station capacity required as a result. Your extender might not use much, but it uses more than nothing so any time spent switched off contributes to a global saving in energy consumption.
It’s like @I like Skol may not be much but adds up not just the bigger picture but your own bill.
We turn our internet off when we don’t use or out the house unless mid download or software update.
Then again we don’t leave anything on stand by either
We turn our internet off when we don’t use or out the house unless mid download or software update.
Then again we don’t leave anything on stand by either
