should i switch wifi box off every night

WTFH

I'll have to check again the next time I'm home, but I was sure that was the rating on it. (Can't remember whether it's a type a or b HH3 I have)

kwikbreaks

Regardless of whether it is 0.5w or 10w imo there is little financial reason to turn them off and I've always run mine 24x7 but I can understand that some people are concerned about fire risk and hacking possibilities and switch off for those reasons.

I've seen the theory put forward that doing so can impact your profile and so your speed but I've never come across any evidence for that and I imagine the DLM routines probably can tell the difference between a daily power down and noise driven frequent resyncs which are what do affect the profile.

WTFH

Sorry for the delay in checking, yes, it most certainly is 6v, 150mA. It's the one that came with our home hub and has the rating plate on the top of the plug. Will take a photo of it tomorrow and investigate further as there's nothing else on the net about a hub 3 running at that rating.

mattyprice4004

Sounds like you could have the wrong plug, as 150ma is barely enough to run the WiFi side of the router alone.

Transmit power is 100mw I know, however the circuitry driving this is pretty inefficient and generates the most heat within the router. You'd be lucky to have much left over of 500mw once the driving circuitry is taken into account - leaving 400mw left for the rest of the equipment (150ma @ 6v = 900mw)

SilS

ok so that was good issue to discuss. Actually I haven't switched my wifi box off since I bought it, at least now I'm assured that it was the right decision

WTFH

mattyprice4004 wrote: »

Sounds like you could have the wrong plug, as 150ma is barely enough to run the WiFi side of the router alone.

Transmit power is 100mw I know, however the circuitry driving this is pretty inefficient and generates the most heat within the router. You'd be lucky to have much left over of 500mw once the driving circuitry is taken into account - leaving 400mw left for the rest of the equipment (150ma @ 6v = 900mw)

OK, will someone take me out and shoot me for being an idiot? :(

I took a photo of the power supply, then was able to see the model number. I googled that, then worked out that someone had switched plugs around. BT PHONE charger is 6v 150mA. BT Broadband transformer is in a completely different set of wall sockets.:rotfl:

SORRY!

Mirno

I know of at least one BT hub that allows you to turn off the wifi as part of it's configuration.
There's not a lot of power optimisation that you can do for wifi - it just sits there saying "my name is wifi-hotspot123" all the time. The rest of the system can slow itself down until it's needed. So most of the power draw is the wifi.
So if £10 a year is too much for you, then it may be possible to turn it off. The reason I know this is because my sister had a (as it turned out reconditioned) BT home hub with this feature turned on. Their wireless connectivity would drop every night at 11pm!

Mirno