Operation Manual

Power-saving Features of FRITZ!Powerline 500E
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8 Power-saving Features of FRITZ!Powerline 500E
FRITZ!Powerline is equipped with modern power-saving features and
adjusts its energy consumption to the given state of operation.
Maximum Power Consumption
• in normal operation: less than 4 W
• in standby: less than 1 W
Standby Mode
FRITZ!Powerline automatically switches to standby mode ap-
proximately five minutes after the connected network device
has been switched off. The LEDs on the adapter switch off as
well.
Green Mode
The data rate on the network port of a FRITZ!Powerline adapt-
er amounts to 1 Gbit/s. This data rate can be limited to
100 Mbit/s for each adapter in order to reduce the energy
consumption under load by up to 1 watt.
This limit is configured in the AVM FRITZ!Powerline program.
The setting for limiting data rates is called “Green Mode”.
Computers that can be started over the network (Wake on
LAN) are not switched off completely, so FRITZ!Powerline
does not switch to standby operation. To allow standby oper-
ation of the adapter in spite of this, you must either disable
the Wake on LAN function, or completely cut off the computer
from the power supply using a multi-outlet strip with its own
power switch.
For many applications in the home network a net data rate of
100 Mbit/s is sufficient.
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