Re: Limiting internet access by time
>> What kind of AP would consume 20W? Mine consumes around 5W and that includes
>> a 2TB disk attached to it (and spinning).
> An Asus RT-N56U needs 30W max. A Linksys EA6900 needs 42W.
I'm not concerned about max consumption. I'm talking about 24/7
consumption (i.e. the impact on the monthly kWh). These 30W are
probably/hopefully only reachable in *very* unusual circumstances (at
least unusual for a home-router situation).
> Your 2TB spinning disk probably uses 4-5W when it is awake but
> not reading/writing.
No, the 5W I mention above is the consumption as measured by yours truly
on the 110V plug when the disk is spinning (but otherwise idle, as is
the case most of the time) and that includes the power used by the rest
of the machine.
>> > and has an expected lifetime of 1-4 years.
>> Where do you get those numbers? In my world, if it dies on you before
>> 5 years, then it was just a really bad quality AP.
> In my world, a warranty defines the expected lifetime.
Most consumer products come with the minimum legal warranty simply
because the customers don't care about this part of the specs. In that
market I don't think it's strongly related to "expected lifetime": they
could make it significantly longer without suffering significantly
higher "return under warranty", but there's no motivation to do so,
because no matter how small it cost it would impose it would still be
higher than the benefit of getting marginally more customers.
Stefan
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