On 11 Jan, 16:51, PeeGee  wrote:
> Marge wrote:
> > On 10 Jan, 15:39, "Will"  wrote:
> > Socket on router is fine, if you have any physical indication on your
> > router, ie light for each socket. switch on a PC which is connected to
> > a particular socket & see it light up, then shut down windows & see if
> > the light stays on. If it does, I'm guessing it will, then switch off
> > the mains socket at the said PC which is already shut down & watch the
> > light go off.
>
> > If you wait a few seconds & switch the mains plug back on the light
> > will not light up, meaning the socket is free. When you power your pc
> > & start windows it will regain that socket, light on.
>
> In your case, with your "sharer", that may be true. On my system, as
> soon as the 5vSBY appears, the router light for that socket comes on -
> which is what I would expect.
>
> --
> PeeGee

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PeeGee? you are usually very helpful but from this post I'm wondering
if you read the last post at all.

Yes! on my system also, when the 5v from the PC appears at the router
the light for that socket comes on too!! we are the same !!

its when you shut down windows & the PC effectively is off that the
socket is still lit up (active) and therefor not useable by any other
hardware on that socket. Remember I have a splitter so 2 items of
hardware can share the same socket though not at the same time. but
the pc does not release the socket when shut down only when all power
is removed & I believe this is the same for all modern pc's but you
wouldn't be aware or affected by it unless you had a splitter.

Its possible I guess that if you had 2 pc's on the splitter that it
may work ok, the 5v form either overriding the other when needed but
in the case of the 360 this is not so. I'll have to try that out to
see.