ASUS ZenWiFi AX Hybrid (XP4) Mesh router review

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Power Consumption, USB3 and Wired performance

Power Consumption

For the final series of tests, we look at power consumption among others. It's a hot topic these days and, well, we measure using a 10M distance setup, meaning we test with an active WIFI link (the throughput test). We measure this at the wall socket side with the help of a power monitor which can measure to a tenth of a Watt accuracy. This device measures in-between the wall socket and router. 

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Above, power consumption, while we transmit from the laptop to a client-side PC. Wireless is obviously one of the more power consuming features to use. In IDLE the router uses, give or take, 7 Watts continuously and over 8~9 Watts. At 23 cents per kWh this is roughly 15 bucks per year of power and double that in a MESH configuration. And yes, I know, KWh prices are all over the place at the moment.  

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A LAN-to-LAN network test reveals closer to full Gigabit performance over the ethernet jacks. Few routers these days have an issue here and this product performs as expected. We also included switch results of 2.5, 5 and 10 GigE. ASUS offers one single 1 GigE port in simplified wording, that's almost 120 MB/sec over that 1 GigE port.

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