Do you switch your router/internet off at night?

kwikbreaks

I never switch mine off as I have stuff running that makes regular updates to one of my websites (weather and weather satellite pictures) plus I have a SamKnows box which requires the connection to be live 24x7 and a VOIP phone - not that I want waking up in the night but there could be some emergency I need to know about and my mobile isn't always by my side.

That said I really can't believe that the authors of the dynamic line management software that adjusts the default noise margin if the line is unstable clean forgot to account for people turning their kit off overnight.

What certainly can screw things up is yanking the connection out without powering down the router first.

poppy10_2

stator wrote: »

Modern routers like the VM and BT hubs can actually use quite a bit of energy.

Virgin's Superhub uses 10W - that's 88kWHr per year, or £15. Switching it off for 8 hours a night will save only £5.

stator

poppy10 wrote: »

Virgin's Superhub uses 10W - that's 88kWHr per year, or £15. Switching it off for 8 hours a night will save only £5.

Money is money.
Now turn off everything else using electricity unecessarily and you could save yourself £100 per year :money:

virgo17

Strider590 wrote: »

^^ It can take many weeks, anything up to about 6 weeks.
But as I said, sometimes it can get stuck and needs resetting remotely by the ISP.

It can take a long time and indeed it can get stuck. In this case the ISP will submit a request to BT to reset the profile. Unless the ISP is using some form of LLU at the exchange they have no direct access to the BT control systems. BT set up a profile reset which is normally actioned automatically overnight.

virgo17

stator wrote: »

Money is money.
Now turn off everything else using electricity unecessarily and you could save yourself £100 per year :money:

The other view on this, particularly with low consumption devices like modems and routers is that repeated turning on and off each day _may_ shorten their lives and it then becomes difficult to equate power savings to replacement cost :idea:

[Deleted User]

Home routers should be configured using PPPoE rather than PPPoA. In the former case what has the automated exchange got to do with it? Assuming we are talking of ADSL, because with cable this makes no sense.

Strider590

stator wrote: »

Modern routers like the VM and BT hubs can actually use quite a bit of energy.

How much is "quite a bit"?

I think most people don't have a clue how much power something uses, for example my father thinks that anything with a light on it MUST use A LOT of power.

My router uses about 4w, that's about 3-4kWh per month, running 24/7. I don't know what my unit cost is, but estimating 25p, that's about £1 per month.

My shower on the other hand, uses 9500w, that's just short of 5kWh per half hour, or £1.25 per day!!!

This is what people don't realise (not helped by the stupid TV campaigns), whist the small things do add up, the real wastage comes from the use of high powered appliances.

I'm pretty sure I can cope with spending £1 a month to keep my router going..... Especially when I use it's attached HDD as private/secure cloud storage and image hosting, giving me 24/7 access from anywhere in the world.

[Deleted User]

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/faq/sections/radsl.html#303

One of the myths for the up to 8 Mbps and up to 24 Mbps services is that you should not switch off your modem.
Switching off a modem overnight, or if going away for a few days will not cause any problems with the training systems some providers use. The only time it may cause problems is if you switch the modem off and on multiple times in a short period, e.g. ten or more times in an hour.

RumRat

stator wrote: »

Money is money.
Now turn off everything else using electricity unecessarily and you could save yourself £100 per year :money:

That's not even a cup of coffee per week.

DigForVictory

Only when I want all the wifi users in the house to converge on a particular point.
They can find the cash to settle up assorted household bills with remarkable speed, so long as they get their fix rebooted shortly.
So I power down about quarterly...