How Much Electricity Does a Netgear Wireless Router Use?

We are all pretty much using wireless internet, I have had my wireless router for almost 3 years now, and Im sure that many people never switch them off (just like me), so how much electricity do they use?

Netgear Wireless Router DG834GT - 10W

Assuming you do not turn your router off, this would equate to 0.24kWh / day and 87.6kWh annually, costing approximately £10 per year to run and emitting 48kg of CO2. If you can compare the consumptions of the product before you purchase, this might be an idea to save a few pounds a year and a few kg of CO2 for each watt saved. Approximately there are 12m households in the UK with a broadband connection, if each of these used wi-fi and never turned it off we would be using 2880MWh per day, and in a year collectively spend £135m per annum, and emit 102 000 tonnes of CO2.

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Please Note the energy use figures are taken from an energy monitor and are not scientifically analysed, therefore the range and margin of error is greater. If you would like a specific product tested let us know and we will endeavour to check it out.