13-01-2005, 22:54
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Put Router to Sleep
Silly question maybe. If you turn your PC off at night as I do, do you power down the router if no-one else needs access to any services.
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13-01-2005, 22:56
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Re: Put Router to Sleep
There's no obvious need to, its not like it consumes huge amounts of power!
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13-01-2005, 23:00
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Re: Put Router to Sleep
If it consumes electricity, you may as well turn it off. No harm will be done.
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13-01-2005, 23:11
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Re: Put Router to Sleep
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Originally Posted by Zeph
There's no obvious need to, its not like it consumes huge amounts of power!
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Theres no obvious need to leave it on either.
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13-01-2005, 23:13
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Re: Put Router to Sleep
I power mine down:
1. Because it's wireless and I'm paranoid 
2. Because it consumes power and I'm skint (not to mention tight)
3. Because the King of the Potato People tells me to do it 
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13-01-2005, 23:20
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Re: Put Router to Sleep
And so in conclusion, it is purely a personal thing. There is no problem with settings being lost or anything technical, just an economy or safety reason.
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13-01-2005, 23:23
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Re: Put Router to Sleep
I leave mine up because it's also my DSL modem so it's easier to leave it running, I leave my switch on too.
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14-01-2005, 00:23
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Re: Put Router to Sleep
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Originally Posted by caveman
And so in conclusion, it is purely a personal thing. There is no problem with settings being lost or anything technical, just an economy or safety reason.
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exactly, I have my connections to ntl as installed, other stuff goes off the 6 gang, surge buffered strip 
which does have a 4 gang plugged in - but low amperage, honest 
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14-01-2005, 00:39
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Re: Put Router to Sleep
I leave the router & modem turned on all the time.
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14-01-2005, 00:51
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Re: Put Router to Sleep
I have to leave my router & modem on since my laptop is constantly running
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14-01-2005, 01:32
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Re: Put Router to Sleep
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Originally Posted by homealone
exactly, I have my connections to ntl as installed, other stuff goes off the 6 gang, surge buffered strip
which does have a 4 gang plugged in - but low amperage, honest |
Only 9 sockets  how do you mange?
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14-01-2005, 08:31
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Re: Put Router to Sleep
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Originally Posted by jtwn
Theres no obvious need to leave it on either.
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Unless you run a server  As has been stated its purely personal, sometimes my Router can take a while to realise theres a connection to NTL and so sits there for a few minutes thinking about it, its nice to be able to turn my PC on and have a net connection straight away, and I doubt the people who use my IRC server would be too happy if I turned it off every night to go to bed
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