Do you unplug your home internet modem/router when you are away? Thanks for your responses.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

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[Phoenix61]

1. No but my laptop is off and unplugged. nt

[rpannier]

5. Same here

[unblock]

2. Away? What's that?

[padfun]

3. No. computer is off

There is no need to unplug it. That is, if you have a laptop on and your browser open, then maybe you would want to. and the only reason to do that is if you are downloading a large file and then you need it plugged in.

[Earth-shine]

4. It's a device that eats electricity. Why not unplug for extended absence?

When I'm home, internet continuity is extremely important. We have ours on its own battery backup to smoothly ride out power hits.

[Midnight Writer]

6. Yes. And often overnight.

[Marthe48]

7. If our petsitter will use internet, no

But we have disconnected the modem in the past if we were going to be gone. I haven't been gone much the last 19 months

[underpants]

8. I like pie 🥧

[Sherman A1]

11. Me too

What flavor?

[underpants]

14. Orange

[Sherman A1]

17. Hopefully you will be able to

Or-ange such a pie 🥧

[Binkie The Clown]

9. My modem and WiFi router are on a switched outlet. I flip the wall switch and everythiig goes off.

So yes, it goes off whenever I'm not actually using it.

[question everything]

10. Yes.

With all the WiFi around I don't need anyone using mine.

[Unwind Your Mind]

12. No

Being self employed, sometimes I need to remote in to my computer when I’m away

I do turn off the monitors and mouse

[IbogaProject]

13. Off when we are out

Off when we are out and at night.

[SYFROYH]

15. No, but there is always someone in my house.

[Bev54]

16. If I am away on holidays I do unplug it all, including TV's

They all eat electricity so off they go, but actually it comes from back in the days when lightening could hit a building or pole and knock out the TV's, ruining them. We now have underground lines but I still do it.

[mysteryowl]

18. I use high speed DSL ethernet, so no