Wifi booster cost

CrutchCran

Hi all,
Can anyone help please?
I've recently had a smart meter fitted having not had one for about 18 months and my electricity usage has gone through the roof.
The only things that are different (that I can think of) than previously are two wifi extender switched sockets (which can't be turned off as the are built into the plug socket). Would these guzzle electricity or should I be looking for something else?
Thanks!

grumpycrab

CrutchCran wrote: »

Would these guzzle electricity?

Shouldn't do. What we need are Actual electric meter reads from the last 18 months, including current smart meter read and its install date. The main suspicion will be that your electric account was in large debt at changeover to the smart meter.

psychic_teabag

I'd think the first port of call would be your energy supplier.

Can you quantify the increase ? How many extra units (kWh) per day ? You can translate that into an uncreased power usage (watts).

How old was your previous meter ? Was it the old dial kind ? It's possible that it was badly calibrated, and that it was under-reading your previous usage.

Not sure what you meant by "not had one for about 18 months". Do you mean any electricty meter at all ? Or do you mean you used to have a smart meter, then went back to a dumb one, and are now back to a smart one ?

CrutchCran

Thanks both,
Sorry for lack of clarity. We had a smart meter (new kind) until about 18 months ago and then not again until about 2 weeks ago. The baseline usage was previously really low (first thing in the morning before anyone was up using lights, chargers etc). Now when I get up its already showing a cross to indicate our usage is higher than anticipated. Its also up to 5 bars on the screen when the resting rate used to be 2 bars.
The cost of energy yesterday was over £5 for the day and when our usage based on last years use is about £90 a month.
Thanks!

grumpycrab

CrutchCran wrote: »

...Now when I get up its already showing a cross

What's already showing? the in-home-display? Doesn't mean a thing. Need electricity meter reads - all the ones you have within the last 18 months, especially the meter read just before new meter 2 weeks ago. Got any paper bills? Or all done online? Sorry, cannot really help without these.

CrutchCran

Thank you grumpycrab. I’ve a day off later this week so will spend some time digging around and come back to pick brains again.
P.S. I live in Gwent, South Wales

psychic_teabag

CrutchCran wrote: »

Thanks both,
Now when I get up its already showing a cross to indicate our usage is higher than anticipated.

That could just mean that the "anticipated" setting is too low.

Its also up to 5 bars on the screen when the resting rate used to be 2 bars.

can you clarify which screen you mean here ? "used to be" implies that you had this same screen prior to switching over to the smartmeter. (Or are you referring back to the previous time you had a smartmeter ?)

The cost of energy yesterday was over £5 for the day and when our usage based on last years use is about £90 a month.
Thanks!

While indicative, a single day is probably not enough - eg if you have an electric shower but don't use it every day, usage will be higher on days you do use it. Similarly an electric oven, etc.

As grumpycrab says, really need actual readings over a few days in order to do something quantitative.

I've got one of those energy monitors that runs in parallel with the meter. I keep meaning to check its calibration against the meter so that if I do make the switch to a smartmeter, I've got something quantitive across the transition.

forgotmyname

Wireless router will cost about £8 a year to run just over 2p a day or just under 70p per month.