Comment by nothal
7 years ago
Why are routers so energy intensive? I would think that with fiber the cost would be that of producing light which seems to be low cost.
7 years ago
Why are routers so energy intensive? I would think that with fiber the cost would be that of producing light which seems to be low cost.
Doesn't seem like a design point that any of them ever care about. It's easy to waste a lot of power if you treat it as a don't-care.
To add an anecdote, those Comcast modem/router combos get really hot and are constantly running their fans. They probably have some pretty poor software on average and aren’t running power management daemons.