Do I Turn Off My Modem When Not In Use?

home_alone

espresso wrote: »

So how much money do you think that you are saving then?

about £12 a year thats about 1 gallon of petrol right..

gary

OK_Sauce

All fair points. Turning off just one single socket switches off my pc, printer, scanner, 2.1 speakers, sub, modem, wireless router and monitor alone

Turning off a few sockets which my a/v gear, hi-fi, tv, pc stuff, etc. hardly takes much effort.

What's the point of leaving them on standby all night? Sometimes I don't even bother to switch them on during the day unless I'm going to use them. They could stay off for days. It's about time manufacturers offer 'off' switches on all appliances. Even my cooker hood remains on standby 24/7 - what's the point in that, exactly?

neocoombs

I always switch mine off at night, I have a router, never had any problems...

robt_2

home_alone wrote: »

about £12 a year thats about 1 gallon of petrol right..

gary

Seriously doubt turning a router off overnight saves £12

home_alone

robt wrote: »

Seriously doubt turning a router off overnight saves £12

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=844175&page=2&highlight=turn+router+off

Its mentioned on the link page 2 I think.

Broadband Equipment: Some recent measurements of broadband equipment (modem + WLAN router) have identified a worse situation consumption of permanent consumption of 20 W even when not in use, this corresponds to 175 kWh per year or around 5% of the average household consumption. This represents a cost of 26 Euro per year per household. The best performing equipment (modem WLAN router) consumes 4 W, only when it is in use. This corresponds to 35 kWh per year, i.e. a saving of 80%. If 100 million households adopted the best solution, an additional 14 billion kWh would be saved.

A good read is this:-
http://www.weeac.org/upload/savingenergyathome.pdf

and another one including pics http://www.tiscali.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=147049

gary

Hungerdunger

One other consideration is damage from thunderstorms. Probably depends where you live, but our phone line is susceptible to them. I've lost an old 56k modem and a fax machine because of storm damage. Also a PVR, but I think that was because the aerial was connected at the time of the storm.

D.K.

I switch mine off...Why risk having a fire, it works just as well when turned on again.

PROLIANT

Unfortunatly I have a Network and Windows 2003 Domain controller, Exchange 2003 mail server, Remote desktop, VPN and Web server so I need to have it running 24/7, but for the "normal" home user I would switch it off.