Kidorry Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 While I can understand why you really have no need to. The chances of it actually catching fire are really rather small. And there you have it for me,a chance of a fire is good enough for me to switch it of.Money does not come into it where safety is concerned,for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil woman Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Hi All Thank you for your feedback. It is not the charge of leaving the router on it is the fire risk. I have been leaving it on now 24/7. If I am a way from home for a very long lengthy time ie holidays I will turn it off. I have had 2 power packs blow in recent years. One on a monitor and one on an external hard drive. The one for the monitor went with a loud pop and blew sparks out from the socket where the mains cable plugged in. It left a few scorch marks on some papers on my desk. I turn all my transformer packs off at night. It requires one click. Phoning the fire brigade requires more effort than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 And there you have it for me,a chance of a fire is good enough for me to switch it of.Money does not come into it where safety is concerned,for me. You turn the entire house off at the consumer unit then, every time you leave the house or go to bed? Seriously - switching the router on and off is going to stress the power supply more and may even increase the chance of a fire as opposed to leaving it on all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil woman Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 You turn the entire house off at the consumer unit then, every time you leave the house or go to bed? Seriously - switching the router on and off is going to stress the power supply more and may even increase the chance of a fire as opposed to leaving it on all the time. Would you recommend leaving Christmas tree lights on when you go out or go to bed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Would you recommend leaving Christmas tree lights on when you go out or go to bed? Do you turn your fridge or freezer off every night? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Would you recommend leaving Christmas tree lights on when you go out or go to bed? I certainly do these days, now that they're all LEDs and not incandescent. Only at christmas time though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkertelecoms Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 I always turn off my router at night. Lately I having been having a very slow connection. Should I leave my router on 24/7? Yes you should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikes10 Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 One in seven homes contain a faulty electric appliance:- if the following article is to be believed http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/11226373/Faulty-appliances-put-one-in-seven-homes-at-risk-of-fire.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 One in seven homes contain a faulty electric appliance:- if the following article is to be believed http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/11226373/Faulty-appliances-put-one-in-seven-homes-at-risk-of-fire.html Faulty doesn't mean it'll catch fire. My last block of flats had 69 apartments. Not once in 4 years did we ever have a fire alarm. Current block has 30+, not once in a year have I seen a fire engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 And of course offices have hundreds of PCs, laptops and monitors, routers and other network hardware that are at best put into stand-by at night. All the power is left on, the power bricks are still connected, but we don't have an epidemic of office buildings burning down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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