Cost of having a router plgged in 24/7 ??

I'm a bit concerned how much my Belkin router uses, how much are we talking
Would it use more 'leccy' when other pc's are connected to it also ?

"___" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm a bit concerned how much my Belkin router uses, how much are we
talking
> Would it use more 'leccy' when other pc's are connected to it also ?

My solwise router uses a little under £5 of electricity a year to run all
the time.

More connections should make no material difference.

Jc.

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> "___" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > I'm a bit concerned how much my Belkin router uses, how much are we
> talking
> > Would it use more 'leccy' when other pc's are connected to it also ?
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> My solwise router uses a little under £5 of electricity a year to run all
> the time.

Hmm how did you work that out ?

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> > > I'm a bit concerned how much my Belkin router uses, how much are we
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> > > Would it use more 'leccy' when other pc's are connected to it also ?
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> > My solwise router uses a little under £5 of electricity a year to run
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> > the time.
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> Hmm how did you work that out ?
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Put the cost per Kw/H into my mains cost meter and ran it for a while.

Jc.

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> I'm a bit concerned how much my Belkin router uses, how much are we talking
> Would it use more 'leccy' when other pc's are connected to it also ?

As the other poster said, it'll generally use around a tenth of the power
that a typical idle PC will.
(using old PCs as routers can actually be more expensive due to the
electricity use).

It will not use any significant amount more power when many things are
connected to it.

"___" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm a bit concerned how much my Belkin router uses, how much are we
talking
> Would it use more 'leccy' when other pc's are connected to it also ?
>
It probably uses 10-15watts all the time, you would probably find that the
adapter on its own would continue to use 10 watts even if the router were
unplugged.

10watts*24*365=87kWh at 7p/unit=ukp6