Do you leave your router on at all times?

stockton_2

I do not think there is a single answer for everyone. I switch mine off at night and it does not affect my download speed. So, for me, there is no point in leaving it on.

I take the point of those who say that we leave fridges and sky boxes on at night but then to turn the fridge off would result in a loss of food. Switching the sky box off would result in a failed recording. Switching my router off results in no loss at all.

If my router was in the attic I probably would leave it on. If speed was a problem for me then I would probably leave it on. Cost is not an issue: fire hazard is not an issue (as far as I know).

So I turn mine off at night. Some people leave their's on 24/7. No problem. We all have different scenarios. There is no one right way of doing things here.

AndyPix

stockton wrote: »

Cost is not an issue: fire hazard is not an issue (as far as I know).
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So why turn it off ?

agrinnall

RumRat wrote: »

Is it an age thing????

Depends what age you think the tipping point might be at, I'm 58 and the only time I've turned mine off in the last 10+ years was when I was away travelling for 4 months, although the whole house was powered down then.

I used to be an IT Consultant but I'm better now .

cajef

Mine is normally on 24/7 the only time it gets a holiday is when I am on holiday.

System

How do you turn the router off?

stockton_2

AndyPix wrote: »

So why turn it off ?

Because there is no reason to leave it on.

cajef

Judi wrote: »

How do you turn the router off?

There is a little thing called a switch on mine.

Head_The_Ball

pappa_golf wrote: »

I read my emails , then turn my router off , why waste money on electricity for router , whilst typing a reply


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waits 5 mins for router to reboot

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Do you turn your windscreen wipers off when you go under a bridge in the rain?

50Twuncle

stockton wrote: »

Because there is no reason to leave it on.

If you want to maintain maximum speed - there is !!
When you switch off - equipment at the exchange sees this as "noise" on the line and reduces the speed to what IT considers a stable rate.
Once reduced - the only way to increase it back to the starting speed is to leave it on and either wait (can take several weeks) - or get a BT engineer to reset your profile....
As I said - mine reduced to 13Mbps and a ridiclously low 0.6Mbps upload - from 76/20
This was almost 2 years ago and ever since then, has been left running and has kept its speed.
of course - this is only relevant to Fibre - ADSL doesn't matter so much and as for dial-up - that benefits from a regular reboot !

AndyPix

Head_The_Ball wrote: »

Do you turn your windscreen wipers off when you go under a bridge in the rain?

That made me laugh out loud , thanks


Good analogy !!