Turn Router off when not in use or Not?

S0litaire

Turning any device on and off regularly causes stress to the components. With items designed to be turned on and off their's usually capacitors used to gently power down a system (by gently i mean in 1/10 of a second rather than instantly!)

Most routers you have to pull out the power cable or turn it off at the wall.

The stress happens when it is being turned on. The effect of going from cold (Room temp) to operating temps (probably 30-40c) causes the components to expand and shrink as they warm up and then cool, this causes tiny stress fractures in the metal and components, over time this causes them to fail!

barrymoney

never turn mine off, out of laziness mostly. also, have habit of surfing web on iphone in bed (thats normal, *right*?

thescouselander

S0litaire wrote: »

Turning any device on and off regularly causes stress to the components. With items designed to be turned on and off their's usually capacitors used to gently power down a system (by gently i mean in 1/10 of a second rather than instantly!)

Most routers you have to pull out the power cable or turn it off at the wall.

The stress happens when it is being turned on. The effect of going from cold (Room temp) to operating temps (probably 30-40c) causes the components to expand and shrink as they warm up and then cool, this causes tiny stress fractures in the metal and components, over time this causes them to fail!

Thats true on a theoretical level but for most people it wont be a problem. I regularly turn my laptop on and off and the CPU can range from room temperature to 90 deg C - it does this all day every day without problem.

Leopard

barrymoney wrote: »

never turn mine off, out of laziness mostly. also, have habit of surfing web on iphone in bed (thats normal, *right*?

No, no: not any more. That's what the iPad's for. Raid the piggy bank and get thee to the Apple Retail Store forthwith. You haven't given Apple enough of your money yet.

Lakeuk

My router gets turned of a couple of times a day with no problems, my Bras profile is not affected.

Only time my bras profile has changed was when we had a lightening strike in our street which stopped the voice calls part of the line and slowed the bandwidth down on the data part, once BT had sorted it all out it then took a few days for the bras profile to get back to normal

Norant

Ours also gets turned off at night until morning.

Sowilo_2

Anyone wishing to post their opinion must, it seems, have approval from one of the thugs who think they own the site. Who they are is apparent from their slagging off of all other opinions and from their responses to this post.

Lil306

thescouselander wrote: »

Thats true on a theoretical level but for most people it wont be a problem. I regularly turn my laptop on and off and the CPU can range from room temperature to 90 deg C - it does this all day every day without problem.

Just going a bit off topic here....

I'd really worry if it's hitting those kind of temps, shouldn't be anywhere near them

Are you resting the laptop on a cushion or bed and blocking the airflow, the safe operating range for most CPU's is usually something like -70 to +70c, I can't remember off hand, but 90'C is WAAAAAY over the limit and you're risking shortening the life of your CPU drastically. TBH I'd be surprised if those temps aren't in F which sounds more likely, a CPU could get to those temps and survive but if they're sustained not for long.

Leopard

Lakeuk wrote: »

My router gets turned of a couple of times a day with no problems, my Bras profile is not affected.

Norant wrote: »

Ours also gets turned off at night until morning.

Yes, but do you turn off your modem as well as your router?

Lakeuk wrote: »

Only time my bras profile has changed was when we had a lightening strike in our street which stopped the voice calls part of the line and slowed the bandwidth down on the data part, once BT had sorted it all out it then took a few days for the bras profile to get back to normal

I hope your bosom has now recovered from the experience. :rotfl:

Lil306 wrote: »

Just going a bit off topic here....

I'd really worry if it's hitting those kind of temps, shouldn't be anywhere near them

Are you resting the laptop on a cushion or bed and blocking the airflow, the safe operating range for most CPU's is usually something like -70 to +70c, I can't remember off hand, but 90'C is WAAAAAY over the limit and you're risking shortening the life of your CPU drastically. TBH I'd be surprised if those temps aren't in F which sounds more likely, a CPU could get to those temps and survive but if they're sustained not for long.

Both (so it's not an isolated case, it's typical) my MacBooks Pro (2.4 GHz, Core 2 duo) run quite frequently at up to 85 degrees C when they're flexing their muscles. At that point, the fans start stretching theirs, rise to 5,000 rpm and bring them back down into the seventies.

I have to say, I doubt that many CPUs get asked to operate at an ambient temperature of -70 degrees C. :eek:

You'd need a very large keyboard and have to type in heated mitts.

johnmc

I have my Virgin router and wireless router in my bedroom. The power supplies for both are on the same extension block.

I turn both off at the same time, not to save money but because the transformer noise seems to be about 120Db when I'm trying to sleep.

I do turn it off when I'm not using it and there's no noticeable difference on restart.

Mind you, I'm not on a twisted pair.