Skip to content

Comment on Ask HN: How much electricity does a WiFi router consume?

Comments

Trying to reduce power draw from small appliances like a Wifi router doesn't make any sense. Turn on your oven to bake a pie for half an hour (30min at 2kW), that's 10 days of your router's energy consumption.

If you exclude heating, the main culprits for home electricity usages are : kitchen appliances (stove / oven / microwave / dishwhasher), washing machine, dryer.

Well it depends. If you try to go off-grid/rv and already sorted out heating & food prep then every Watt matters.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.