Thread: Wifi on all the time...a large battery drain?
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Old 12-06-2016, 01:11 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Hollow Man View Post
Has anyone done any measurements to see just what the average battery life goes down to by having the wifi on? Clearly the more you use it the more it drains, but I'm just curious on average if it's 25% worse as opposed to having wifi off? 50%? 75%?

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I didn't actually measure anything but for a while I left the Wifi off on the Kindles i wasn't using to see if that made a noticable difference. It didn't. Charging once a week still had the things down 15% to 20% weekly. I went back to leaving Wifi on.

If there was a difference it wasn't easily noticeable.

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