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Magentasue

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

After saving almost 25% off my electrictity the past two quarters just by turning everything off at standby I'm reluctant to leave anything on standby at all.My problem is that yesterday I installed a router for my new laptop and I don't know wether I will damage the connection by turning it off and on when not using it.Since it has a big flashing blue light on it it must use a bit of power.I did turn it off last night to check wether it would reconnect with no problems but I'm still not sure about wether it would harm it in the long run.Any advice would be appreciated.Thanks.

I don't think it would do any harm to turn it off. I turn mine off at the wall when I remember. Most of the time, I connect automatically when I turn my laptop on but occasionally I have to click 'reconnect'. Not sure how accurate this is:

http://www.byebyestandby.com/HomeEnergyCalculator.html

[Deleted User]

I turn mine off every time I turn my computer off. It is on and off at least 3 times every day and often more than that

Gigervamp

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

My problem is that yesterday I installed a router for my new laptop and I don't know wether I will damage the connection by turning it off and on when not using it.

I've heard back from hubby and this is what he said

General opinion is that, yes you'll save some money turning it off, as
you will with any device, but the more you switch it on and off the
more 'wear' you're giving the device - every time you switch it on it
has a surge of energy to deal with. More on/off = more likely to
eventually pop and let the magic smoke escape. Is the amount you'll
save more than the cost of a new router?

Magentasue

Should add that I leave mine on all day and only switch off at bedtime. School hols I'm on and off laptop (on too much TBH) all day and term time, others in the family work different hours so makes sense to leave on. Had it three or four years now.

greenbee

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

After saving almost 25% off my electrictity the past two quarters just by turning everything off at standby I'm reluctant to leave anything on standby at all.My problem is that yesterday I installed a router for my new laptop and I don't know wether I will damage the connection by turning it off and on when not using it.Since it has a big flashing blue light on it it must use a bit of power.I did turn it off last night to check wether it would reconnect with no problems but I'm still not sure about wether it would harm it in the long run.Any advice would be appreciated.Thanks.

I supply these for work to 4000+ homeworkers. I switch mine off when it isn't in use, and advise others to do the same. We have had no issues with wear and tear (and I switch mine off at the mains, not at the button on the route), and we've actually seem a reduction in calls to the helpdesk about issues with blocked lines (where we advise users to switch off for 20 minutes and try again), so we've come to the conclusion that it's actually better and more productive to switch on and off regularly!

Primrose

We used to leave our router permanently switched on, but now turn it off every night.

ceridwen

Working my way through experimenting with cutting fuel usage. Having just switched over to a different fuel company again (to go on a fixed rate) - I've told them that though I was paying £61 per month to my previous company and I see they have put me at £69 (ie the £61 and the 13% price increase to fix my price:eek: ) - that I will be amending my direct debit to £50 - as I feel its not reasonable for a single person with a full-time job to have to spend more than that on fuel per month - even with the price rises.

Should be able to cut back to that - I've recently had to swop both cooker and fridge/freezer - so the cooker is now A-rated and the fridge/freezer is A plus-rated and am planning this winter on changing my central heating from being on both morning and evening sessions and any time in between when I think I will (with 6 radiators on out of my 7) - will now try for morning session only and the 3 most important radiators only (ie bathroom, kitchen and front bedroom). Planning on using my halogen heaters for the rest of my heating.
Hopefully that will be achievable - even though I'm still working on training myself to switch lights off when not in use.

Its the psychological angle as well that one has to work on - it feels brighter to have lights on (even if they are not in use) and I work on not just not being cold - but on physically being warm and cosy.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

Thanks for everybody's replies.I think I'll leave my router switched on through the day while I'm in.I'll probably be on/off the internet all day anyway.

Bongedone

http://kezs-blog.blogspot.com/2008/05/low-energy-cooking.html

belfastgirl23

Interesting blog but can you imagine trying to clean porridge out of a flask :eek: