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GS748TP Switch How much Power does it consume?
This might sound mad but our electrictiy bill is huge and the only new suspect is the GS748TP switch we installed a while back. Could it be that this is consuming the juice? It certainly sounds l...
Hi John and thanks for the follow up. Happy to close off the issue but have a couple of follow ups which I guess is more logical to post separately. Many thanks for your assistance with this one.
Hi John and thanks for the feedback.
This is what I 'sort of' rationalised but good to hear it from more skilled people.
And for sure I think it's worth to drop it out of the environment to see how that affects the house electricty consumption.
Just out of interest, if I were to replace the unit with another Netgear 48 port Giga switch (for home use) that had low power consumption what might you suggest? I'm thinking to maybe keep the PoE element separate...on a separate switch. The GS748 is incredibily noisey.
Many thanks
I suggest you to use one of our unmanaged switches as some of it doesn't have any internal fans. But we only have a 24-port switch for that which is the JGS524v2.
Regards,
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