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Do you turn off your wifi router when going to bed and why?
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<blockquote data-quote="Stopspying" data-source="post: 1004973" data-attributes="member: 69368"><p>Similar here, more ethernet usage than wi-fi. The wi-fi is often switched off, not just at night, and definitely if we're away, along with the router and much else.</p><p></p><p>Not into having 'personal assistants/spies' around the home, nor letting the local cops see who is approaching our front door. If I want to listen to music/radio there are older analogue tech systems here (Quad valve amps etc) that sound much better than any 'modern' digital method I've heard that is affordable. I don't mind getting up and switching things off and on. We want a break from tech for some hours of the day, especially after using it all day at work, Some of the real world is actually OK, uninterrupted conversations are good without any distracting bleeps and flashing lights. Sometimes we switch our phones off while still awake, or leave them at home if we're going out, crazy huh? It annoys the hell out of those we know who can't exist without a device being within 50cm of them<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite137" alt=":devilish:" title="Devil :devilish:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":devilish:" /> This may all seem a bit mid-C20th, but we quite like it, a mish-mash of old and new ways of communicating, working and general living. I've long had a semi-Luddite tendency, interested in the new but still appreciating the old. After university I started programming those monster IBM computers that our smartphones of today outperform to the nth degree, I saw that this was the future but hated the working environment and didn't touch a computer for some time. I've long since returned to working in IT to pay my way, but I still like to shut it out. I get that wi-fi this and that may be good, but we're still capable of checking the fridge etc to see what we need from the shops before we go to them. We'll wait until we're dependent on Zimmer frames or whatever before succumbing to them, by then they'll probably be greatly appreciated, plus you lot who use them now will hopefully have sorted all the bugs out by then.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stopspying, post: 1004973, member: 69368"] Similar here, more ethernet usage than wi-fi. The wi-fi is often switched off, not just at night, and definitely if we're away, along with the router and much else. Not into having 'personal assistants/spies' around the home, nor letting the local cops see who is approaching our front door. If I want to listen to music/radio there are older analogue tech systems here (Quad valve amps etc) that sound much better than any 'modern' digital method I've heard that is affordable. I don't mind getting up and switching things off and on. We want a break from tech for some hours of the day, especially after using it all day at work, Some of the real world is actually OK, uninterrupted conversations are good without any distracting bleeps and flashing lights. Sometimes we switch our phones off while still awake, or leave them at home if we're going out, crazy huh? It annoys the hell out of those we know who can't exist without a device being within 50cm of them:devilish: This may all seem a bit mid-C20th, but we quite like it, a mish-mash of old and new ways of communicating, working and general living. I've long had a semi-Luddite tendency, interested in the new but still appreciating the old. After university I started programming those monster IBM computers that our smartphones of today outperform to the nth degree, I saw that this was the future but hated the working environment and didn't touch a computer for some time. I've long since returned to working in IT to pay my way, but I still like to shut it out. I get that wi-fi this and that may be good, but we're still capable of checking the fridge etc to see what we need from the shops before we go to them. We'll wait until we're dependent on Zimmer frames or whatever before succumbing to them, by then they'll probably be greatly appreciated, plus you lot who use them now will hopefully have sorted all the bugs out by then. [/QUOTE]
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