Does turning router off every day slow down internet connection?

free4440273

RazWaz wrote: »

I do a lot of streaming and online gaming, so if there were any slowdowns/hangs I'd notice them and everything always runs perfectly within 2 mins of the router being switched back on. I turn mine off every night (Turn everything in the house off (apart from the fridge), really saves on the energy bills).

agreed/ turning off the fridge? heresy !

diable

I leave mine on as it heats my room at night...........

trets77

well my wife was turning off our Homehub to use the hoover in the plug socket without me knowing for a while , i could not figure why my speed suddenly was dropping off a cliff . :question:

your homehub needs to talk to the exchange so it the exchange knows how fast it can handle . constant turning on and off makes the exchange think there is a problem , so it slows your speed down to stable it up .

there is absolutely no reason to turn it off for "security" reasons your network is either secure or it's not . if you are worried about security then read up on how to make your network secure . if you are not secure someone can easily piggyback on your wireless while you doing what you are doing on the internet , so don't delude yourself that turning it off is keeping you safer

as for cost of electric , you are probably saving pennies a month

exup

if you leave your router and or modem on all the time, and so did everyone else, we would very quickly run out of IP addresses. The only way that there is enough IP (version 4) addresses to go round is the recycling of unused addresses which go back into the system when someone turns off their internet connection. These IP's then go via DHCP to someone else who is using the same ISP.
Unless of course we go to IPv6 which would give us all enough IP addresses, but there isn't any ISP that has got the guts to do this yet.

GunJack

exup wrote: »

Unless of course we go to IPv6 which would give us all enough IP addresses, but there isn't any ISP that has got the guts to do this yet.

...and if you use vista, in which case you won't connect to the net half the time anyway

GunJack

DatabaseError wrote: »

Looks like Gunjack posted the facts

The thing he missed, syncing around the middle of the day often results in a faster connection (once the exchange catches up with the sync speed), and summer is a little higher than winter. < Only relates to ADSL connections, not ADSL2+/LLU/cable etc...

^^^^^ this is true, but I didn't want to ramble on

For those of us on LLU AND use DMT to tweak our own line, it really isn't much of an issue

gord115

Had this reply from my ISP

"Thank you for your query. What they have said is correct in the sense that every time u disconnect your router the telephone exchange measures this as a disconnection. When it notices a certain amount of disconnections in a certain period of time it will limit the speed as it will think there is an intermittent fault that needs slowing down. Routers are designed to be left on all of the time so I would suggest to do this to ensure maximum stability and speed. "

So will be leaving it on,thanks everybody

joolsybools

gord115 wrote: »

Had this reply from my ISP

"Thank you for your query. What they have said is correct in the sense that every time u disconnect your router the telephone exchange measures this as a disconnection. When it notices a certain amount of disconnections in a certain period of time it will limit the speed as it will think there is an intermittent fault that needs slowing down. Routers are designed to be left on all of the time so I would suggest to do this to ensure maximum stability and speed. "

So will be leaving it on,thanks everybody

Ew! I hope they didn't use u rather than you.

JamesJamz

joolsybools wrote: »

Ew! I hope they didn't use u rather than you.

I was thinking exactly the same thing :rotfl:

free4440273

Who got used ?