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How much electricity does a WAN wireless use?

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There is a local internet provider that has set up wireless in my town. Landlords get 100.00 year to let them put an antenna on the roof and they get a free wireless account worth 5.00 per month.
The problem is they hooked it up to my electric line. So I am paying the bill.
I need to come up with some figure to tell my landlord so I can deduct it from my rent.
I live in the Northeast and have a moderate electric rate. My personal electric bill varies widely so I can't just compare last years to this years to see the difference.
So how much electricity would a Wireless G wan use, being on 24/7, and broadcasting about 3-4 blocks?
 
the transmitter is probably 1-2 watts

so very little, much less than a small light bulb

just tell them you want a free account and you'll be getting a deal
 
Well some quick Googling shows a Linksys WRT54G uses about 5.6 watts on average.

The lowest calculator I could find only goes down to 7 watts.

Assuming it's on 24/7 at 7 watts, it costs about $0.02 a month.
 
Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
Well some quick Googling shows a Linksys WRT54G uses about 5.6 watts on average.

The lowest calculator I could find only goes down to 7 watts.

Assuming it's on 24/7 at 7 watts, it costs about $0.02 a month.
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Ask your landlord for .02 cents per month and update us on the results.
 
Originally posted by: jiggahertz
Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
Well some quick Googling shows a Linksys WRT54G uses about 5.6 watts on average.

The lowest calculator I could find only goes down to 7 watts.

Assuming it's on 24/7 at 7 watts, it costs about $0.02 a month.
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Ask your landlord for .02 cents per month and update us on the results.
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Hopefully his landlord will write him a check like this:

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/citrix/checkpic.JPG
 
Originally posted by: tfinch2
Originally posted by: jiggahertz
Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
Well some quick Googling shows a Linksys WRT54G uses about 5.6 watts on average.

The lowest calculator I could find only goes down to 7 watts.

Assuming it's on 24/7 at 7 watts, it costs about $0.02 a month.
Click to expand...

Ask your landlord for .02 cents per month and update us on the results.
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Hopefully his landlord will write him a check like this:

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/citrix/checkpic.JPG
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ha ha ha...thats great!
 
At 7 watts you would be looking at 7*24*365 = 61,320 watt/hours or 61.3 KWH (61320/1000) per year. The highest in The US is currently 14.31 cents per KWH. So your yearly increase at 7 watts would be 14.31 * 61.3 = 877.203 cents, or $8.77

BrunoPuntzJones needs to check his calculator. Nowhere in the US is the yearly cost 24 cents. That would be 0.39 cents (1/3 of a cent) per KWH. You are off by a factor of 12, even for the lowest cost in the country.
 
If the free account is worth $5 then ask the landlord to deduct $5 from the rent or give you the account.
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
buying a kill a watt meter will cost more than ten years of the electricity it uses :roll:
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Depends on where he lives. they are only $30.
 
Originally posted by: Evadman
At 7 watts you would be looking at 7*24*365 = 61,320 watt/hours or 61.3 KWH (61320/1000) per year. The highest in The US is currently 14.31 cents per KWH. So your yearly increase at 7 watts would be 14.31 * 61.3 = 877.203 cents, or $8.77

BrunoPuntzJones needs to check his calculator. Nowhere in the US is the yearly cost 24 cents. That would be 0.39 cents (1/3 of a cent) per KWH. You are off by a factor of 12, even for the lowest cost in the country.
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🙁

I didn't calculate it myself, used one of them from here

That wasn't the one I found earlier. This one shows about $7, much closer to what you get. Guy would have some balls to deduct $0.75 from his rent check each month 😛
 
That's why I said you need to check your calculator, not that you can't do multiplication 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Evadman
At 7 watts you would be looking at 7*24*365 = 61,320 watt/hours or 61.3 KWH (61320/1000) per year. The highest in The US is currently 14.31 cents per KWH. So your yearly increase at 7 watts would be 14.31 * 61.3 = 877.203 cents, or $8.77

BrunoPuntzJones needs to check his calculator. Nowhere in the US is the yearly cost 24 cents. That would be 0.39 cents (1/3 of a cent) per KWH. You are off by a factor of 12, even for the lowest cost in the country.
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I wish that was only paying 14 cents per kWH right now! CL&P just raised my rates to 17.8! As this point, I think that only Hawaii is paying more 🙁
 
Is this a 802.11a/b/g network? Or is this a real ISP with their own transceiver equipment where the subscribers purchase their own antennas/adapters/downconverters? The power consumption may be considerably more for non 802.11 equipment.
edit:
oops - nevermind you said G equip.
 
Originally posted by: txrandom
Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
Originally posted by: FoBoT
is that .02 dollars or .02 cents
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They're the same thing!

(does anyone remember that video?)
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What video?

They really are the same thing...
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How are they the same thing. You have 2/100th of a dollar which is 2 cents and 2/100th of a cent which is like... .002 cents or somting.
 
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