Do you guys switch off your wireless router if out during the day?

martin2345uk

As per title - we tend to just leave ours on all the time, but does anyone turn theirs off when they're not at home?

I would also ask about the Sky+ box, but I understand it doesn't record stuff when switched off so will leave that for now

Just curious really!

closed

yes, 7 watts is 7 watts, which works out to about a fiver pa in electricity wasted assuming out for 8 hours, and asleep for 8 hours.

It also may help to improve the odd sluggish sync speed.

elsien

Overnight and stays off all day till I get home from work. If I remember, which I quite often don't.

Lucy_Lastic

No mine is on all the time.

System

Mine is on all of the time too... as is my computer.

Callie22

Yes, we switch ours off when we're out. We also have it on a timer so it goes off at night - which is handy as it stops me staying up too late fiddling on the internet

Fruball

It never occurred to me to turn it off!

Linda32

No we don't turn ours off.

avantra

I doubt very much that switching the darned box on and off is worth my time even if it did save me a fiver a year. Each to their own, I will not loose sleep over this.

closed

the same could be said of lights or many electrical appliances, but generally people switch them off when not needed.

FrooGal_2

Not overnight, but we do if we leave for more than a day.

We do turn the Sky box off at the wall whenever we are not using it though