I believe that most of the routers in people's homes are continuously turned on, and even if they sleep at night, they will not manually turn off. Today's # router should be powered off when not in use # topic on Weibo hot search, according to CCTV network reports, because the router is not standby, so it will waste a lot of power, when not in use should be turned off.
Although the power of the router is very small, long-term operation will also increase the internal temperature, resulting in accelerated aging of electronic components, shortening the service life of the equipment, and increasing the probability of failure. The accumulation of caches can also affect router performance and network quality.
However, at present, most routers do not have the function of the machine, if you want to shut down, you can only manually unplug the power, which is quite troublesome. Although it is better to turn it off when you are still not in use, it is not a big problem not to turn it off. Now the router upgrade is also quite fast, a variety of e-sports routers, with a few years to replace the new is also very reasonable.