Routers power consumption

Hi there,

I am in the strange position where I need to convince an old lady that N-capable routers do not have power consumption in the range of 10 kW... Yes, you are reading it correctly, I mean 10 kW, lol.

You see, the problem is that she was told by some self-proclaimed expert that home N-capable routers consume about the aforementioned absurd amount of energy, where actually I believe he meant 10 W... Unfortunately, she would believe neither my words, nor the simple calculation watts=amps x volts based on the adapter parameters. That is why I need something more persuasive, like table with different N-capable routers against their power consumption or something the like, published somewhere in internet, that I can print out and show to her.

(FYI, the router in question is intended to run off 100 Mbit/s fibre optics connection.)

I have already googled about routers power consumption and similar, but I could not find anything suitable. I will be very thankful if someone could provide a link to something with authority appearance or good source for such things.

Thanks in advance and sorry for spamming with such weird requests!

 

Most routers use about 3-8watts. What router is it anyway?

My N routers transmit radio is only running 71mW. I believe the FCC rules limit wifi radio power to 1watt (1000mW). So just check the FCC website.

Think of it this way, a microwave runs at 2.4ghz 1000watts, a consumer grade router will barely exceed 100mW. Thats 10,000 times the power.

With 10kW (10,000watts) of power you could cook a turkey from like 30 feet away lol

Use Kill-a-watt for a definitive answer.. It will calculate the weekly/monthly costs too.

 

Thanks for your response!

I don´t have a problem obtaining the values for myself in all various ways But I need a source that looks representative, technical, nicely sorted out in order to convince that old lady...

As for cooking turkey you are of course right. My first argument was that electric ovens are like 2-3 kW, meaning that at 10 kW the router will rapidly melt away, lol. This was not accepted by the old lady in question as a valid argument...

As for the exact router model, I don´t know it, because we still have not purchased it. However, I think that a .pdf with technical description of any home N router, that mentions its power consumption, would do the trick as a reference.

 

sorry i couldn't help but laugh ^^

EDIT i hate living in the places i do in the us...no freakin fiber.....i hate u people ^^

 

What about a user manual for the router?
It has to have this in technical specs- average power consumption.
If you don't have the router you can still print it out and show it to her before making a purchase.

 

The problem with data sheets/user manuals of routers is that they never mention the power consumption explicitly. Of course, it can be calculated straight-forward out of the volts and amps, but go explain this to her

I am stuck untill I find a reference giving explicit values for the power consumption of an arbitrary N-capable router.

 

Here is a specsheet that explicitly states the router's max power consumption is 12 watt

3G Mobile Broadband - HW550-3G

Most of the time, the thing will be drawing less than 3 watt

 

Great find! (+rep) Thanks a lot!

 

the power adapter will have a label. have her read that.

 

Not every router power adapter has the watts on it. For instance, Netgear DG834GB (current router-modem) does not have it Thanks anyway for the suggestion! Dealing with old ladies has always been one of my weaknesses, lol.