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Turning router off at night - good practice?
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MEPIS Rules!   Joined: Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:54 am Posts: 224 Location: Lancaster, UK Has thanked: 25 times Have thanks: 5 times 
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Post # 295152
 Turning router off at night - good practice?I moved us to a new and much better ISP (PlusNet, if anyone's curious). In the router's setup guide they recommend keeping it on all night, permanently, as this can help the connection.
I've never heard that advice before. Does anyone know if keeping it on all the time is a good idea? _________________ Dell Inspiron 640m, WinXP, Linux Mint, Mepis 8.5 |
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| Mon Feb 06, 2012 7:05 am |
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 MEPIS Guide   Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:10 am Posts: 2729 Location: The Netherlands Has thanked: 128 times Have thanks: 210 times
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Post # 295153
Re: Turning router off at night - good practice? I turn it off at night, find it actually better as it saves power. Just turn that thing on first in the morning and then everything else when it has started proper, I have no issues with it.
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| Mon Feb 06, 2012 7:15 am |
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MEPIS Guide  Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:43 am Posts: 2235 Location: Nederweert-Eind, The Netherlands Has thanked: 20 times Have thanks: 120 times
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Post # 295156
Re: Turning router off at night - good practice? I keep my modem and router switched on. Except when I leave home for extended periods of time (like a few weeks or more).
Keeping them in a stable electrical state is far more important than the minor energy savings obtained by switching them off at night. Ko _________________ Ko Bros |
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| Mon Feb 06, 2012 7:27 am |
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Post # 295158
Re: Turning router off at night - good practice? I'd say it's largely down to the quality of the hardware concerned, we've got core network kit that's been running more or less constantly for 6+ years, but if saving power (the mains adapter probably uses more than the router) is more important (or fear of being hacked unlikely!), turn it off (I have been recently, but my internet connection is via 5.8Ghz link!
 )This is much more likely to be Plusnet knowing that support calls are more likely when people 'interfere' with their network hardware! _________________ ::AMD Phenom II X2 550 BE 3.1GHz::Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H::Crucial 2gig DDR3 1333MHz/PC3-10600::Hitachi DeskStar 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache:: ::O² Joggler:: |
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| Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:06 am |
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MEPIS is cool!   Joined: Sat Jun 06, 2009 6:06 am Posts: 873 Location: Bristol, UK Has thanked: 226 times Have thanks: 166 times
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Post # 295161
Re: Turning router off at night - good practice? I'm also with Plusnet - their advice on broadband speeds explains the recommendation:
Seems sensible to me - I only switch the router off when I go away. Phil _________________ Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3, Phenom II X2 550 BE (now X3), 8GB. 120GB Corsair SSD, ITB Samsung HDD, Mepis 11.9.70-64. |
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| Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:15 am |
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MEPIS Guide  Joined: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:49 pm Posts: 2448 Location: Doncaster UK Has thanked: 99 times Have thanks: 610 times
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Re: Turning router off at night - good practice?
Plus 1, , PlusNet, thats BT's Yorkshire based (Sheffield) ISP, _________________ *Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic(Windoze)* Kubuntu KDE 4.10.2 / Debian Wheezy-Experimental KDE 4.10.2 / Plasma Active 3 Tablet |
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| Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:16 am |
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MEPIS Rules! Joined: Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:54 am Posts: 224 Location: Lancaster, UK Has thanked: 25 times Have thanks: 5 times
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Re: Turning router off at night - good practice?
That's also maybe why, on the router that PlusNet sent me, you can only alter the DNS settings through some jiggery-pokery in the command line. Thanks everyone - it's staying on :) _________________ Dell Inspiron 640m, WinXP, Linux Mint, Mepis 8.5 |
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| Mon Feb 06, 2012 9:01 am |
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Post # 295199
Re: Turning router off at night - good practice? turning it off/on comes down to whether your systems are left on/off and whether systems left on need network - or, if they're left on will they freak w/o network.
i leave mine on, because i leave my mythtv system running all the time. |
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| Mon Feb 06, 2012 12:43 pm |
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Post # 295236
Re: Turning router off at night - good practice? Topic discussed on Plusnet's forum too: http://community.plus.net/forum/index.p ... 67.0.html/ seems inconclusive but erring on the side of 'it doesn't make any difference'..
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