Out of curiosity, have you measured the power draw from the wall socket with you...

Tharkun · on Nov 28, 2016

I'm a heavy APU2 user. They mostly sit around 7W. Which is a lot more than most off the shelf wifi routers and the like.

dom0 · on Nov 28, 2016

The DTAG VDSL2+Vectoring standard modem ("Speedport W 724V", I and some other people tend to call them shitport) pulls about this much in idle. The DrayTek VDSL2+Vectoring modem also pulls about this much.

Both without WLAN (enabled).

justinclift · on Nov 28, 2016

Awesome, thanks. It sounds fairly reasonable compared to a lot of other gear I'm running here. :)

grp · on Nov 28, 2016

I also don't have the equipment to make "real world" measurements.

But I'm running my personal website on it* 24/7 for 6 months and I can hardly notice the change on the electricity bill. It's awesome!

* exactly the same config

eladx · on Nov 28, 2016

Sorry, no, I don't have the equipment to do that... yet!

justinclift · on Nov 28, 2016

No worries. :)

As a data point, bought one of these 6 months ago (£20.00) for doing power draw measurement from the wall socket:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000Q7PJGW

http://www.p3international.com/products/p4400.html (US equivalent)

It's been extremely useful for finding out how much power various equipment draws. For example, several of the "powered off" systems here - not sleep mode, just shut down via OS - still draw 4.5W+ continuously. Now I turn things off via the switch at the back of the power supply too. ;)

Mentioning this as you don't need to fork out heaps of money for (say) a Fluke meter. It's possible to get reasonably accurate consumer type.

(But, read the reviews first. There were probably 10+ other meters out there better priced... but most of them with reviews about their poor accuracy.)