Re: Leave router switched on 24/7 ?

[Eddy <eddy.bentley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for all responses up till now.  Good to hear that NetGears are
surviving 3 years while being on 24/7.

However, the idea of installing a timer between the router's adaptor and
the socket sounds like a good one, to give it at least 8 hours' rest a
day.

I don't suppose it aggravates or slowly damages a router to switch its
power off every night, does it?  At the moment I have my motherboard,
monitor, and phone plugs (the ones that must all be on at the same time)
arranged in surge protector so that each monring I just turn on the
tower & the monitor.  I guess having to flick the surge-protector's
switch too wouldn't be too much of a burden.  What I fear is the router
not finding all those precious settings each morning and giving me hell!

Eddy.