Do you turn your router off…like ever?

[OddBeMe]

Apparently it’s common in some parts.

Yes

No

[Anonymous]

Yes. Neighbors like to hack for gaming night and slow it down. Often have to boot their “accounts” and shut it off until their friends leave.

[OddBeMe]

You should have a better password.

[Opinion Owner]

Last one was 33 characters all mixed. Took him three hours to hack it.

[OddBeMe]

Weird. Try this site out:
www.f-secure.com/.../router-checker

[Jessica405]

No. It stays on all the time. If you switch it off, it takes some time to settle down for best speed.

[DryGermanGuy]

When going on holidays, along with other electronics. No point in wasting electricity.

[OddBeMe]

Good point.

[OddBeMe]

Do you unplug as well? I heard even electronics turned off but still plugged in draws power.

[DryGermanGuy]

I unplug the electronics that have only soft power-off (router among them). You can basically tell by the length of the on/off button. When it really moves for a cm and makes a clunky noise, that’s a hard power-off.

[OddBeMe]

Like a dryer for instance…?

[DryGermanGuy]

Highly possible, I guess it also depends on the maximum of power that machine draws. To be 100% sure, just buy a simple flowmeter socket.

[OddBeMe]

Googling that now. Thanks my man!

[DryGermanGuy]

Something like this:
www.amazon.com/.../B07P8M7N9F

[NathanDavis]

no, that's my kittens nap bed... they like it warm

[FreyaRed]

No. I use only 5Ghz option and deactivated 2.4 GHz. 5Ghz gets absorbed by walls, window glass and moist air. I guess signal of my router is so bad outside, it's even not interesting to start a brute force attack to break my password because bandwidth is bad and connection will have too many error packages.

[OddBeMe]

That’s interesting I didn’t know that. I have both 5G and 2g options and use whatever’s strongest at any given time. Not sure why one is better than another when downloading a gig of video.

[DubiousIntentions]

Only if the internet is messing up and I need to reset it.

[OddBeMe]

That is the go to. For anything really. Cars, computers, cellphones.

[goaded]

Yes, when there's a thunderstorm. We had one got fried.

[OddBeMe]

Weird. Do you have a satellite or soemthing to attract lightening? My father in law had some type of metal window at the highest point of his house. Set the roof on fire. But it was minor damage luckily.

[Nikki1989]

Very rarely, but sometimes we need to reboot.

[OddBeMe]

True, that does seem to solve 99% of internet problems.

[exitseven]

no, but maybe it would not be a bad idea. I use WPA2 and have a very secure password which I need to change soon.

[OddBeMe]

You can use oddbeme_sexy. But the e’s are 3’s.

[exitseven]

hahahahaha not a bad password.

[Sevenpointfive]

i can understand unplugging it, but turning it off? no

[OddBeMe]

Yeah I just read these Reddit posts of dumb fcks who unplug their router every night… lol

[Dargil]

I reboot mine once in a while.

[msc545]

no - why do that?

[TheAfrikan]

Always on when am in need of it only