Turning off

Hi All,

First of all I hope I've post this to correct section.

I have recently been informed that I will be getting a new electric meter fitted, and have been told that I must swich all appliances off, (TV's, DVD players, etc).
As the electric company will accept no responability for any damage caused.

One of these happens to be my router.

I just wondered if turning my router off would effect my download speed when I then switch it back on again.
I've heard that if you switch a router off, when you switch it back on, the router needs to re-sync. On some occasions if it re-syncs at say, 2meg, then thats it, you can only download a max of speed at 2 meg, even though you can get higher download speeds.

Is this true, of have been feed a load of rubbish.

I'm on 8meg broadband, and usually get between 6 to 6.5 meg download speeds, which i think is pretty good.(i know it not perfect)

Any advice would be most welcome.

Edited by mutant04 (Mon 20-Jul-09 17:54:37)

You'll only get a hit on your sync speed if the router gets power cycled several time in a short period of time. Turning it off then on again just once or twice isn't going to do anything.

Turn it off. Electrical equipment can be damaged by mains spikes that happen when everything is turned off or on at the same time.

Definitely turn it off.

If you're really concerned that it may connect at a slower speed, try to power it up during the day - the odds of connecting at a slower speed are slightly increased after sunset. But in practice, I wouldn't worry about it.

John.

If you don't turn it off and it breaks then it will be worse than a 2meg speed. nothing bad will happen.

Thanks for all advice so far.

I will be out at work, when they change the meter over, so I will need to turn my router off before I go out to work, about 7 in the morning, I won't be back till after 5 at night, so won't able to switch it back on till then

Will this be okay???

Also, what do you mean by 'several power cycles'???

In reply to a post by mutant04:

Also, what do you mean by 'several power cycles'???

Switching power on and off in succession over a short period of time. Also rebooting too I'd imagine.

I think BT say 10 times within an hour can cause havoc.

Phill

Edited by deleted (Mon 20-Jul-09 18:18:30)

Switch your router off at 7am when you go to work. When you get back home in the evening switch it on.

Thats all you need to do.

Also, what do you mean by 'several power cycles'??? -

This means switching your router off, then in a very short time switching the router back on and then continuing this cycle over a short period of time. Avoid doing this.

In reply to a post by mutant04:

I just wondered if turning my router off would effect my download speed when I then switch it back on again. I've heard that if you switch a router off, when you switch it back on, the router needs to re-sync. On some occasions if it re-syncs at say, 2meg, then thats it, you can only download a max of speed at 2 meg, even though you can get higher download speeds.

That's fine. As others have said BT's systems will respond to multiple resyncs in a short time period but a single resync will be ignored.

My router is on a timer that powers it off between midnight and 4pm during the week and midnight and 7am at the weekend. It's been that way for several years and has never caused any issues with the ISP. My current router (the modem that Be supplied) sometimes fails its POST and needs a power cycle but the DSLAM probably only sees that as one event anyway. It probably just looks like some days my modem comes on a bit late.

As happens it's also a none-issue because Be don't use a profiling system. O2 don't either on their LLU product but if you're on their IPStream variant (O2 Access I think it's called) then you are going through BT's systems.

Edited by Andrue (Wed 22-Jul-09 13:11:53)