How often reboot your router

[Katrina]

How often do you reboot your router?

 

[Page]

My router gets rebooting once a week in the middle of early hours on Sunday night for a new day of monday

 

[Ravenfreak]

I only reboot my router if the internet is acting up. Lately our service hasn't been too bad though, it tends to go out during the late hours since I see people complaining about the service in my neighborhood's Facebook group.

 

[MrDawn]

When I lived at my old house, I was constantly having to reboot it. The technicians told me that I was in a really bad area and that there was a lot of interference. I wasn't the only one filing a complaint. They had Fidelity techs coming in and out of the neighborhood where I lived trying to figure it out. My Internet experience vastly improved once we moved. Presently, I've rarely had to reset it since we got into our new home.

 

[Shortie_]

It tends to only reboot my router if we start having any issues with the internet but I do feel that I would be better off rebooting it once a week when I remember so that I knew everything was fresh and I wouldn't have any issues for that week.

 

[Uncrowned Guard]

I have my modern on a timer that resets weekly. My router has a built-in software restart that is also set to be weekly.

 

[AussiePaul]

I only reboot my router if the internet is acting up.

This. Don't really see the point otherwise. It always clicks into gear when I do it.

 

[Chev]

Either once a month or like everyone else, when it starts acting up, which in itself is a rare occasion. I play a lot of online games so it is quite noticeable when it does. haha

 

[zappaDPJ]

I don't recall power cycling or software rebooting my router ever except for firmware updates. I run a support forum for a niche ISP and it's fair to say they supply me with a consistently good connection.

There's no real reason why you shouldn't reboot especially if you are experiencing connection issues but I tend to adhere to the adage if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

 

[Cam]

We only reboot our router when the internet is acting up. Haven’t had issues lately, so it’s been a while. I suppose the power going out during bad weather counts? That’s happened a few times.

 

[Jay™]

Only when it needs an update.

 

[SugarRain]

I reboot it as needed. I'd say it ends up being an average of about once per month.

 

[Nomad]

When the connections get slow or when the internet gets interrupted and does not come back for a long time I reboot the router but that does not happen too frequently.

 

[The Cat Lady]

I've had to reboot it a time or two. I haven't rebooted it regularly, if that's what you're asking.

 

[Felly]

Not very often, just when I need to because the internet's not working properly and there's no outage from my ISP.

 

[CodyCool]

None unless there are issues then I reboot it!

 

[Allenafaith]

Before I swapped ISPs, I was having to reboot at least three times a week. Since the switch, I think I’ve only did it once but it was because the power went out due to a storm and it didn’t come back online. 😅

 

[Phun]

I reboot my route at least once a week or every two weeks.

 

[Gizmo]

I hardly touch our modem. Our modem is a mobile one that connects to a SIM card as we can't get a decent signal from the household modem in my parents house so have to have our own in our caravan.

 

[JBCreates]

Never really have to reboot the router as everything runs pretty smoothly. Only times were during a power outage or when messing around with adding a new power outlet on the circuit.