Post #1275564
2026-03-24 13:21 UTC
@manawyrm @ann3nova hey, because energy for a year can quickly become more expensive than the hardware: do you happen to have a wall-power measurement for the media converter? (just an order of magnitude, not something detailed. I want to know whether we're talking 4€/a in electricity, or 50€/a.
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@manawyrm@chaos.social 2026-03-24 13:26
@funkylab @ann3nova Mine's a TP-Link MC220 and it draws 1.3W from the wall (with an active 1000MBit/s link), including the SFP module. So yeah, 4 Euro/Year sounds about right.
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@nblr@chaos.social 2026-03-24 13:59
@funkylab @manawyrm @ann3nova If you have SFP+ anyway, surprisingly the power draw is much higher for copper. 10GBaseT sucks about 2-3W while even an LR 10G optic will often consume less than one Watt. (also something to be mindful of in high-density applications, the dissipated head adds up more than one would think)