No. I’ve never had any reason to.
I’ll get my waders 
That’s always the worst. The ones are all pointy and the zeroes are easy to trip over. You steam clean the house for days, and think you’ve gotten all of them, and two years later you remodel your kitchen and the contractor tells you that there’s a 4chan colony in the drywall.
People with dial up modems turned them on and off with their computers. My pc, monitor, and modem plugged into the same power strip. One switch turned everything off.
Had to, because it tied up the phone line.
Old people do. I’m back on the tech support desk for an ISP after a two year break. I’d forgotten that old people do that.
“Let’s just check and see… Woah, looks like your connection drops every day, sometimes multiple tim… Sir, do you turn off the modem when you’re not using it?”
“Of course! You don’t expect me to leave it on when I’m out of the house, do you?”.
But… They do. Not every model, I grant you, but all the newer ones I’ve encountered recently do. It’s mostly older modems and cheaper modems that don’t, and I assume that’s just to save 20 cents in the cost of manufacturing.
that explains why I keep wanting to :dubious:
I can’t remember the last time I turned off any computer device intentionally. It’s been at least a decade. Maybe the monitor when I leave for vacation (but that just goes to sleep automatically, anyway), but otherwise, everything is left on, in case I need to access it while I’m away (and I often do.)
I have one client who insists on doing so, believing that the radio signals from the WiFi disturb her sleep. The hilarious part is that she’s less than a mile from two different TV transmission towers.
Two MILLION WATT TV transmission towers.
I don’t want to turn it off, but my laptop refuses to obey the command to “do nothing” when I close the lid. It shuts down every time. It also refuses the commands of “sleep” or “hibernate”. No matter what I set it for, it shuts down. Then after a random number of days/weeks/months, it suddenly decides to do what it’s told.
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My modem is a Surfboard 3.0, no off switch. I do turn my computer off, as trying to make it sleep or hibernate it just turns itself back on after 4 hours. And startup time is negligible. I found that leaving it on made a $10 difference in my monthly electric bill.
This includes my mother in law. She grew up paying by the minute for phone calls, and won’t be convinced that connecting to the internet doesn’t work the same way. In a “pick your battles” situation, it is one that we have not picked.
Allow me to introduce my teenage daughter: “Doesn’t Need Sleep When Internet Is On”. She will stay up until 4 am on a school night if she has internet access, or all night. She doesn’t really concern herself with mundanities like “time”. “Moooom!”
During the week, we, her parents, are a bit tyrannical and turn off the internet when we go to bed. She does not yet have her own connection. (She’s only 12 for the love of all that’s fuzzy and good!) Sometimes she sulks a bit, but we generally get her to give in and go to bed by midnight using this archaic method.
I can empathize but you don’t have to do it the manual way. Most routers of any quality support blackout restrictions either in total or by device for that reason. You just have to set up the schedule once and not worry about it again. There is also free software that enforces a schedule. Sure, a savvy person can get around it but it is still harder than just sneaking in and turning a router back on.
Also, 12 year olds are not “teenagers” by definition although it sure feels that way sometimes. Kids are growing up early these days but that is no reason to abuse terms.
Same here. I’ve got a Roku, a desktop, a tablet and a phone that all use the WiFi at various times at various times during the day so I just leave the modem running as it takes too damned long to start up. Besides, I’ve been know to browse the Internet with my phone before I get out of bed in the morning.
The desktop I leave running but I hit Ctrl + Alt + L (Linux) to lock it. Then I turn the monitor off as it’s instant-on in the mornings. Sometimes I go months without rebooting my computer.
I’ll turn off the computers or put them to sleep when I’m done, but leave the WiFi on so it’s ready whenever I come back. I know from the handful of times it’s gone off that it’s irksome to get it connected again. Better just to leave it.
I don’t think I can shut it down. When it had problems and needed rebooting, the cable company had to do from their office. Maybe there is a reset switch but it is hidden under a desk with a nest of cable. When I go away for a few days I turn off the network, but that’s all.
Mostly my computers stay on but they go into hibernate automatically.
:rolleyes: I apologize for assaulting your tender sensibilities by abusing the term teenager. If you knew her, you would understand the whys and wherefores. Our router software does not support the restrictions you suggest. We have checked. This is the easiest solution for now. Other software that is available will require on device downloads and we don’t need to go there yet because this works, for now.
Simply amazing how fast tweens and teens come out of their caves when their internet connection is shut off. Wouldn’t need to do it if they’d realize that putting off a 20 minute chore for 3 hours is going to get their games and downloads snuffed in the middle. Our internet stalls out and needs rebooting couple of times per week. That and lightning storms are about the only times we shut it off.
There was talk going around what is more wear and tear on a computer leaving it on all the time or turning it off when you go to sleep or side for some hours.
Some say the turning on and off every day gives it more wear and tear than just leaving it on.
No. Never. There are three people living here and between us there may be about three hours a day when all of us are asleep, which is probably the only time in our lives we aren’t going to try to Google something every few minutes. The gizmos themselves never sleep – if you leave them alone long enough, they get bored and update themselves. Even my Kindle is set to pull things out of the aether every night, so I have something to read on the train.
If the internet is off while I’m home and awake, I get twitchy. I do a lot of my work online; not knowing when the connection will come back means I don’t know when I can get back to doing things I can bill for.