No.......Turn it off at night. When you turn it on it re-boots and clears. Just as in the Computer, re-booting once a day or turning it off at night is a good thing. It re-sets the defaults once re-booted.
@CruiserMD wrote:
No.......Turn it off at night. When you turn it on it re-boots and clears. Just as in the Computer, re-booting once a day or turning it off at night is a good thing. It re-sets the defaults once re-booted.
I dont know where you got your information, but its just plain wrong.
1) You dont need to turn off a computer everyday either, as long as you keep it clean and dont clutter it with junk. It is simply not possible to clutter a router with junk, and they are absolutely designed to run for months without interruption. Whoever told you this is just ignorant.
2) The defaults are NOT reset with every reboot. I dont know where you got this either, but no router works like that.
Not to break the tie, but one thing to consider is if you are in an area where a neighbor or hacker is "curious", having it on 24/7 gives them a lot of time to "play" with connecting. Something to think about. I only go wireless very intermittiently, so I disable the wireless section of my router until I need it.
@johnallg wrote:
Not to break the tie, but one thing to consider is if you are in an area where a neighbor or hacker is "curious", having it on 24/7 gives them a lot of time to "play" with connecting. Something to think about. I only go wireless very intermittiently, so I disable the wireless section of my router until I need it.
I am wireless because 3 computer hook into this and 2 of them are on different floors. But the is a 25 letter/number that is random selected. You have to have those numbers to access the wireless part of the router. So finding that key, could be a real task to accomplish.
Fred langla's news letter has gone over this subject time and time again......turn it off when not using it. Look in Microsofts knowledge base and you will also find articles about off/on computers.
AND, I dont think these two sources are "IGNORANT"
Another serious cosideration is also mentioned in these post and I dont think he's "IGNORANT" either
Actually there is downloadable software that would crack that key in a matter of hours with traffic on the wireless. More to be aware of. WPA is a big step in defeating that.
Anyone with a router that resets itself to default if its turned off should probably return it for repair. A router *should* be capable of running continuously too - I haven't yet come across any that couldn't run long term (other than a couple that had faulty firmware, and worked fine after that was fixed) :)
Whether its worth turning a router off overnight is more debateable. I personally never bother (even though I have no permanently running machines dependant on it), but its a fair comment that you give potential hackers extra time to work on it if you leave it running, not to mention waste the energy needed to keep it running. For longer periods (holidays and so on), I turn pretty much everything off.
Fred langla's news letter has gone over this subject time and time again......turn it off when not using it. Look in Microsofts knowledge base and you will also find articles about off/on computers.
AND, I dont think these two sources are "IGNORANT"
Another serious cosideration is also mentioned in these post and I dont think he's "IGNORANT" either
1) The suggestion that turning it off provides an extra layer of security is valid, I don't mean to suggest that that piece is ignorant. It is a valid method. I just think that risk is quite low, and that a properly designed security system is mroe than enough.
2) I also read Fred's list occasionally (he isn't ignorant, but he isn't always right, either), and have never seen him advocate turning off your hardware based router. I'd like to see where he said that - could you post the link? If he indeed does advocate that, I still assert that he is wrong.
3) Where in the microsoft KB does it suggest turning off your hardware router at night is somethign you should do?
We shut/hibernate the computers when we can't be by them, or when we go to bed. So what good does a hacker get if he can't enter the computer. Heck, I can't even get these computers to talk to each other (But then again, I am almost a complete novice on networks). The best I did was to at least get them to talk to the router. And what is WAP? How do I get it?
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I dont know where you got your information, but its just plain wrong.
1) You dont need to turn off a computer everyday either, as long as you keep it clean and dont clutter it with junk. It is simply not possible to clutter a router with junk, and they are absolutely designed to run for months without interruption. Whoever told you this is just ignorant.
2) The defaults are NOT reset with every reboot. I dont know where you got this either, but no router works like that.
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I am wireless because 3 computer hook into this and 2 of them are on different floors. But the is a 25 letter/number that is random selected. You have to have those numbers to access the wireless part of the router. So finding that key, could be a real task to accomplish.
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Fred langla's news letter has gone over this subject time and time again......turn it off when not using it. Look in Microsofts knowledge base and you will also find articles about off/on computers.
AND, I dont think these two sources are "IGNORANT"
Another serious cosideration is also mentioned in these post and I dont think he's "IGNORANT" either
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Whether its worth turning a router off overnight is more debateable. I personally never bother (even though I have no permanently running machines dependant on it), but its a fair comment that you give potential hackers extra time to work on it if you leave it running, not to mention waste the energy needed to keep it running. For longer periods (holidays and so on), I turn pretty much everything off.
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1) The suggestion that turning it off provides an extra layer of security is valid, I don't mean to suggest that that piece is ignorant. It is a valid method. I just think that risk is quite low, and that a properly designed security system is mroe than enough.
2) I also read Fred's list occasionally (he isn't ignorant, but he isn't always right, either), and have never seen him advocate turning off your hardware based router. I'd like to see where he said that - could you post the link? If he indeed does advocate that, I still assert that he is wrong.
3) Where in the microsoft KB does it suggest turning off your hardware router at night is somethign you should do?
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We shut/hibernate the computers when we can't be by them, or when we go to bed. So what good does a hacker get if he can't enter the computer. Heck, I can't even get these computers to talk to each other (But then again, I am almost a complete novice on networks). The best I did was to at least get them to talk to the router. And what is WAP? How do I get it?