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Appreciate that. I’m quite the geek (shock horror) and have been on top of my network in recent months.
Monitoring each devices usage and all IPs are sorted into groups. That’s a total of 101 online devices and just picked up a Google
Home Mini so will add that shortly too.
Luckily the majority of them use very little bandwidth at all (and that’s why I’m happy that my Echos are spying on me) but one internal camera I’ve got (Logi Circle) can be known to upload 2 GB of footage to its cloud each day and that certainly adds up each months.
I’d have struggled with my last Broadband supplier with only 160GB available a month (between 12 and 6am was unlimited) but now with 200mb/s down and 100mb/s up and no limits I shouldn’t struggle on that front.
I do appreciate your point on the power usage but it’s only the newest devices that adhere to those power usage rules. For example my Play 5 Gen 1 of which I have 4, uses 6.5w when idle that will add up as well as all the other 10 Sonos devices.
So whilst there are savings to be made, both financially and ecologically, it will be worthwhile in my own personal opinion. That may well not be the case as devices are made to be even less power hungry as things move forward but to benefit from those it means repacking lots
Of stuff that quite possible still works well. I guess it needs a happy medium to be met.
On top of this, with a 4KW solar system on my roof, most days between April and October my house costs very little to run, but it’s not just about the cost, I guess everyone doing their but will add up. |
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Author: jouster
1-12-2019 21:27:56
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