Almost every home has a router. I believe that many people will not care about it and turn it off after buying it and installing it. Generally, most home routers are not configured very high. If the router is not turned off for a long time, what effect will it have on the network speed?Ebyte is committed to researching more convenient and energy-efficient industrial gateways, looking forward to your attention!

If the router is not turned off for a long time, there are three main effects:

1. The router is overheating

If the router is not turned off for a long time, it will cause the router to overheat. Especially in the high temperature environment in summer, the router will become hot when it is running for a long time. If it runs uninterrupted for a long time, the heat will cause the hardware to age or even damage. Not only will this slow down the internet, but it will even cause various glitches.

If this happens, we can turn off the router for a few minutes, wait about ten minutes, and turn it back on again.

2. Too much cache accumulation

Like mobile phones, routers will cache, and if they are not turned off for a long time, a large amount of cache garbage will be stored. When the cache accumulates to a certain extent, it will slow down the network speed and cause network freezes.

As the number of devices connected to the router continues to increase, the amount of data forwarded also increases, which will lead to more and more caches and higher memory usage. If the memory of the router is small and there are too many caches, that is, the memory usage rate is high, it will lead to packet loss and interruption of data flow.

This phenomenon is common in life, so we have to shut down the router and restart it, so that the router can automatically clean up the cache garbage.

3. The router is too old

Many home routers have actually been used for many years. Because the routers are old and have been running for so many years, the hardware in the routers will naturally age.

In this case, using a router will only slow down the network speed, so it is recommended to change to a routing device. Now there are many affordable routers on the market that are not bad.


After all, it is unrealistic to shut down for a long time, and the smart home and smart devices in the home need to be connected to the Internet before they can be used. You don't need to turn off the router every day. The best suggestion is to restart it regularly every week and clean up the cache garbage. You can turn off the router when you go to bed at night. You don't use the network much when you go to bed at night, and it doesn't affect your use during the day. In this way, the router is well protected, thereby increasing its service life.

In addition, if you usually feel that the network is slow, you can also restart the router appropriately to alleviate the phenomenon of network lag.

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