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Fibre Modem On Always Critical Or Not

JJ_Egan
JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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Basically i want to know if turning a fibre modem off for twelve hours at night will significantly drop the line speed .
It never did on ADSL .

jje

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  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
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    It will have to resynch at the exchange each time.
    More to the point, what would you gain by doing so-a fractional reduction in your electricity bill?
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    macman wrote: »
    It will have to resynch at the exchange each time.
    More to the point, what would you gain by doing so-a fractional reduction in your electricity bill?


    Gain would be no annoying lights as modem is in bedroom and no extra heat from the modem .
    Currently reading 40c on top of modem thats about 15c heat output over room temp .


    ADSL modem off every night and made no difference .
  • almillar
    almillar Posts: 8,621 Forumite
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    Yeah they do get a bit hot these Openreach fibre modems, plenty have overheated so make sure they have lots of ventilation.
    I can help with the LEDs, if you're good with IP addresses. You can remove tape from the second LAN port and plug a computer in, using a special IP address you can log into it just like you do with a router. IIRC, there's an option to turn off the LEDs. I'm sure a net search will find you the details...
  • Quiet_Spark
    Quiet_Spark Posts: 1,093 Forumite
    almillar wrote: »
    I can help with the LEDs, if you're good with IP addresses. You can remove tape from the second LAN port and plug a computer in, using a special IP address you can log into it just like you do with a router. IIRC, there's an option to turn off the LEDs. I'm sure a net search will find you the details...
    Alternatively, cover them with a bit of insulating tape.
    Understeer is when you hit a wall with the front of your car
    Oversteer is when you hit a wall with the back of your car
    Horsepower is how fast your car hits the wall
    Torque is how far your car sends the wall across the field once you've hit it
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    Quiet_Spark wrote: »
    Alternatively, cover them with a bit of insulating tape.



    Melts and due to the air vents it would require 90% of the box to be taped .

    jje
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