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Router Left On, Will It Damage?

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strangeotron
strangeotron Posts: 619 Forumite
in Broadband & internet access
I have a TalkTalk router, which means it's probably not a very good one, does the job though. I want to leave it on over night to finish downloading something. Normally I switch everything off overnight. If I leave it on is there a chance it could overheat or something?
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  • System
    System Posts: 178,340 Community Admin
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    They are meant to be left on permanently!
    This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com
  • unforeseen
    unforeseen Posts: 7,381 Forumite
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    Mines been on for months if not years. It lives in the attic so never gets touched.

    They are designed to be left on.
  • Inner_Zone
    Inner_Zone Posts: 2,856 Forumite
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    It may affect your BB speed as the exchange will see it as a possible fault if you keep switching it off.
  • boliston
    boliston Posts: 3,012 Forumite
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    It will throttle the speed right down (bras rate) if it keeps getting turned off!
  • strangeotron
    strangeotron Posts: 619 Forumite
    unforeseen wrote: »
    Mines been on for months if not years. It lives in the attic so never gets touched.

    They are designed to be left on.
    how do you know that?
  • McKneff
    McKneff Posts: 38,857 Forumite
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    Who told you to keep turning it on and off.....
    Ive had mine years and years and years, not been turned off yet
    make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
    and we will never, ever return.
  • unforeseen
    unforeseen Posts: 7,381 Forumite
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    strangeotron wrote: »
    how do you know that?

    Because it records the hours it has been on and is also powered via a UPS so impervious to mains failure.

    The only reboots it gets are on a software update.
  • jd87
    jd87 Posts: 2,345 Forumite
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    The electricity you are saving by turning it off at night is almost nothing. Like pennies per year. Leave it on.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    I'm another one who has it on 24/7. I turn it off for about an hour twice a week, when leaving the house - for no reason whatsoever, it's just what I do.

    They're fine; they're built/designed to be left on for years without a power down.
  • strangeotron
    strangeotron Posts: 619 Forumite
    boliston wrote: »
    It will throttle the speed right down (bras rate) if it keeps getting turned off!

    how would it do that?
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