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VorpalWayyesterday at 10:00 PM0 repliesview on HN

I have measured the powered off energy usage of my desktop computer at the wall, and it hovered about 5-6 W (resolution of the power meter was just whole watts). That would be split between losses in the PSU and WoL, and possibly other circuits. But I don't have any other such wakeups enabled (but that doesn't mean that the motherboard is designed super well to disable it fully if not needed). Turning off WoL made a difference of about 2 W (meter hovered around 3-4 W).

One thing I noticed is that if I connect to a gigabit upstream port, that the connection drops to 100 mbit/s when the computer is off, but if I connect to a 2.5 Gbit port, it stays at full speed. This is based both on LEDs on the connector as well as the OpenWRT dashboard on the router. If it made a difference it was too small to reliably measure with my simple meter.

If it makes a difference (potentially does for conversion losses I would guess), this is on 230 V mains.