Home wifi ?

[tick59]

Do you leave your router switched on at night or switch it off? What is the best thing to do on or off?

 

[Silver-Fox]

Depends what you have running through it.

Home security and the likes ?

 

[LesW]

On all the time, otherwise it keeps re-settting when turned back on, not a bad thing but just find it inconvenient.

 

[icantremember]

Always on

 

[Geo]

24/7/365 PC as well

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[Phill D]

always on,

 

[Langtoftlad]

On
If you keep turning it on/off then the openreach monitoring at the exchange might take the frequent "interruption" as a stability problem & lower your speed.

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

Always on, why would you want to turn it off? Power consumption is neglible.

 

[Nirvanauk]

Why would you want to turn it off?

 

[Coolcats]

Do you leave your router switched on at night or switch it off? What is the best thing to do on or off?

Leave it on it stabilises your broadband connection, you will find that's what your provider recommends

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[Scotsblood]

On 24/7, runs the home server, security system and a few other bits, hence having a UPS to make sure its stays up!

 

[hilldweller]

On.

 

[TheAleMan]

Never turn ours off. Never had a problem.

 

[peterc10]

At home always leave it switched on. Otherwise exchange's equipment will sense intermittent activity and and will mark the line is unstable and temporarily reduce speed in order to improve stability. That is the instructions and explanation that came with my Plusnet router.

 

[tick59]

Thanks everyone for the answers mine has allways been left on just wondered if that was the right thing to do.

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[Vipar]

On for 5 years

 

[Hollyberry]

Don’t think I’ve ever switched one off. The fun morning quiz would never get online if I had to walk to the living room, switch it on, wait for it to boot up, make myself not fall asleep again while waiting for it to do so.And then remember why I switched it back on in the first place.

 

[DBK]

If you are worried about security turning it on and off will mean it gets a new IP address. If you leave it on permanently your house effectively has a permanent IP address and this could be exploited. Whether anyone would bother to attack your home WiFi is a different matter.

By IP address I mean the address the www sees, not the 192.168.x.y. address used internally.

 

[Lenny HB]

When you switch off or reboot a router it can some times take a couple of days to get up to full line speed.

 

[JustifiedAncient]

If you are worried about security turning it on and off will mean it gets a new IP address. If you leave it on permanently your house effectively has a permanent IP address and this could be exploited. Whether anyone would bother to attack your home WiFi is a different matter.

By IP address I mean the address the www sees, not the 192.168.x.y. address used internally.

In my experience all externally facing IP addresses are under constant attack. A router coming online will get tested by automated probes within 20 seconds or so. A permanent IP address really makes no difference. There are thousands of 'bots' testing every IP address permutation all the time. The important thing is not to leave ports open especially port 80.

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[Richard n Ann]

Why what's port 80? And what would happen? ?

 

[TinaLes]

Ours is left on 24/7/365 for the reasons others have mentioned, however I do turn off the V media Box now & again as if I dont it makes me in the middle of watching something.

Question: Is there a port 101 for all the crap that I relentlessly seem to block, but still comes back.
I am continually setting "rules" up on outlook, but still get hundreds of spam hits.

Funniest today was from a company called DT Brown Seeds & Horticulture materials.(OH uses this lot, so dont block)
Its heading was.....Another Crap Offer from DT Brown seeds
Offer was.......2.5 KG's of Garden Manure pellets!
I dont really mind spurious marketing if its got a sense of humour like mine.
LES

 

[Lenny HB]

If you are worried about security turning it on and off will mean it gets a new IP address. If you leave it on permanently your house effectively has a permanent IP address and this could be exploited. Whether anyone would bother to attack your home WiFi is a different matter.

By IP address I mean the address the www sees, not the 192.168.x.y. address used internally.

I have fixed ip a hangover from when I had a business account and needed it to set up vpn's.
I used to run a separate hardware firewall I don't bother these days if anyone wants my uninteresting data there are welcome.