ISP that doesn't require router to be on 24/7

alanwsg

brewerdave wrote: »

I switch mine off if I'm away from home for more than 24 hours purely because of the fire risk - they do get pretty hot!!

Is this a sensible attitude?

After all, if your house is going to burn down, surely it's better that it happens while you're elsewhere rather than while you're upstairs asleep. If you have any ideas about leaping out of bed at 3am and heroically beating back the flames, forget it: you're more likely to just die.

I used to do the same thing until I sat and thought about it. The Sky box in particular: that gets a lot hotter than the router!

[apologies for thread drift & "less-than-cheerful" post]

kwikbreaks

Although the BT dynamic line management is daft it isn't so daft that it can't recognise that people may turn off their router overnight and it is an urban legend that doing so will cause a profile change. Switching it off lots of times over a short period or just yanking out the phone connection with it on may cause problems but not turning it off overnight.

That said when I was on ADSL I never bothered as the power consumption is trivial and they are designed to run continuously anyway.

macman

Most routers run hot because they are not ventilated properly. I've see them buried under piles of book and magazines, wedged between solid items with the vents covered, shoved under desks on their sides on top of thick pile carpets...

Neil_Jones

brewerdave wrote: »

I switch mine off if I'm away from home for more than 24 hours purely because of the fire risk - they do get pretty hot!!

No they don't.
My router's been on 24/7 for the last two years, and is as cool as you like.

Anyway, as previously stated, they're designed to be left on all the time. Running costs? I'd argue less than a tenner a year if that.

spud17

Measured mine, works out at £7.68/yr

brewerdave

Neil_Jones wrote: »

No they don't.
My router's been on 24/7 for the last two years, and is as cool as you like.

Anyway, as previously stated, they're designed to be left on all the time. Running costs? I'd argue less than a tenner a year if that.

Well,mine (Buffalo) is well ventilated on a window sill with nothing around it,out of direct sunlight - but believe me,it gets pretty warm - also tried another router at my daughters (Thomson) and that is positively hot! - so you must be very lucky - manufacturer please???:)

brewerdave

alanwsg wrote: »

Is this a sensible attitude?

After all, if your house is going to burn down, surely it's better that it happens while you're elsewhere rather than while you're upstairs asleep. If you have any ideas about leaping out of bed at 3am and heroically beating back the flames, forget it: you're more likely to just die.

I used to do the same thing until I sat and thought about it. The Sky box in particular: that gets a lot hotter than the router!

[apologies for thread drift & "less-than-cheerful" post]

Interesting point - must admit I hadn't thought of it that way - suppose I'm assuming that the smoke detectors might go off before it bursts into flames!!!:(