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Warm Reboots vs Power Cycling
From my understanding it's bad for chips to change temps regularly... i.e. turning off a router at night, then turning it back on in the morning. The chips go from hot to cold, back to hot... and ove...
Randin wrote:Thanks, but I apparently obscured my question by providing too much background info as to why I wanted to do a warm reboot each morning. Again, the question wasn't about turning wifi off (which I know is fine), or about a cold boot (which I am not doing).... it was about a daily warm boot.
Instead of providing so much info I should have just asked:
"Is a daily warm boot ok, or will it wear the router faster?"
:)
Since your wanting too do a warm boot the hardware should be ok , The firmware is should load correctly as long no issues pop up during the booting process is the main danger I can see. Your just reloading the os(firmware) like you would in a computer with a reset(reboot) button.
Randin wrote:
From my understanding it's bad for chips to change temps regularly...
That's a pretty old notion. Not sure that it has ever been scientifically proved with domestic kit that does not use thermionic valves.
"Thermionic valves." I was just about to mention those!
Anton
It is also a "soldered joints" phenomenon.
Far fewer of those around these days.
There are many seemingly reputable sources on both sides of the argument as to cold booting. I only do it if there's a reason, and so it's a rare thing and I don't worry about it.
But my question wasn't about cold booting. In the case of warm booting I *do* have a reason to do it once daily, so just wanted to know the conventional wisdom from Netgear. I assume from the answers so far it's not an issue over the long haul, to warm-reboot once daily.