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Do you leave your router on all the time?
ROUTER , ON or OFF
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Norpig
BoltonTillIDie
Cajunboy
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2 Re: ROUTER , ON or OFF Fri Apr 13 2018, 15:53
BoltonTillIDie
Nat Lofthouse
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On all the time
3 Re: ROUTER , ON or OFF Fri Apr 13 2018, 15:54
Norpig
Nat Lofthouse
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On all the time but i do switch it off and on again on occasion when the wifi speeds seems to drop a bit.
5 Re: ROUTER , ON or OFF Fri Apr 13 2018, 16:11
Boggersbelief
Nat Lofthouse
I turn it off every night before bed. You lazy shites
6 Re: ROUTER , ON or OFF Fri Apr 13 2018, 16:15
boltonbonce
Nat Lofthouse
The general recommendation these days, particularly if you are on fibre, is to leave the router on at all time.
BT's fibre line management system is particularly sensitive to powering your router off - all it sees is a dropped connection which it thinks could be a potential fault. With ADSL the occasional power cycle doesn't make much difference, but should not be done excessively (so overnight no problem).
But turn off whilst on holiday. In general no specific worries about malware, hacking etc. as they are initiated via your pc, which you can switch off at any time anyway.
BT's fibre line management system is particularly sensitive to powering your router off - all it sees is a dropped connection which it thinks could be a potential fault. With ADSL the occasional power cycle doesn't make much difference, but should not be done excessively (so overnight no problem).
But turn off whilst on holiday. In general no specific worries about malware, hacking etc. as they are initiated via your pc, which you can switch off at any time anyway.
7 Re: ROUTER , ON or OFF Fri Apr 13 2018, 17:04
karlypants
Nat Lofthouse
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BoltonTillIDie wrote:On all the time
This.
Any talking from two people who know.
8 Re: ROUTER , ON or OFF Fri Apr 13 2018, 23:08
xmiles
Jay Jay Okocha
On all the time. Why would you turn it off? To save a penny on your electricity bill?
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