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I've just got a new computer and I upgraded my BT Internet as well. They sent me a shiney new BT Home Hub which I believe is a pretty cheap n nasty router with a BT Badge on the front.

I have been googling for the last half hour on whether to turn it off at night or not. Some people say leave it on others say turn it off????? There is no on/off switch on it so I'd need to turn it off at the plug.

While I was googling I found this site which seems pretty cool. It checks to see if your computer is vunerable to being hacked. With my shiney new router and free Zone Alarm firewall I got perfect scores 8)

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 (https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2)

(Obviously I'm not recommending the site or anything, I found a link on google, it could kill your computer for all I know, but mines still working OK)

Er, i really would leave your router on.

My wireless router has been "live" for lord knows how long.

I got a bit of BT tat that's been on 12 months and counting.

Mine has been on for about 4 years now :D

I leave everything switched on all the time.

Thanks guys. am I right in thinking if I leave it on all the time I will have the same IP address all the time and if I turn it off and on I will get a different one?

Depends on your isp.

I pay an additional amount for a static ip address

Oh - I leave all my computers on - same as the TV --- Saves on wear and tear.

I think my TV has only been switched off 3 times in 3 years!! (and one of them was to move it)

The site above knew my IP address.  I have Peer Guardian.  I thought this was suppose to prevent people knowing your details.   Am I right in saying when I am playing poker online, people may be able to see my IP address?

I have no idea what a router is but i take every plug out if i'm going to bed and my girlfriends not in, i cant sleep otherwise.

 :o So how much electricity do you think you waste per year then?

Ac

A fair bit I suppose - but its only money  ;goodvevil;

ooer - i feel a heated debate coming on!  ;goodvevil;

Heating also left on  ;ifm;

Don't electrical items wear out quicker if you leave them on all the time?

Not all of them.

Computers are like cars - most damage is done in the starting up as with TV's

Electricity is great.  Leave em on!

OK  i hold my hand up tp the heating being left on , Pauls says i should wear more in the house if i'm cold , i tell him to take it off if he's that hot  ;goodvevil;

Personally i think we should move to a hot country  ;D

its not the money, its the cost to the environment. all that global warming. maybe charmaines got an idea to heat the whole world up so she doesnt have to leave the country for some nice weather:)
im going to start turning all my electric goods off at the wall at night. its safer, cheaper and better to prevent global warming. im just a lazy beggar though but time to make the effort :)up

I take it you'll be selling the MX5 to help the environment too!  ;hide;

 :D

lol
but id i start turning off the leccy, surely thats more than enough to make up for it  :)up Nice 1

mad

I sort my rubbish out for the enviroment  :)up just dont take my heat !! lol

i should sort my rubbish but whats the point when we got no recycling plants about here? the council just dump it all together so a waste of time sorting it.
you have as much heat as you want charmaine 8)

mad :D

Global warming is a MYTH.

well i dont know enough about global warming except what i read. if you look at the seasons we experience on earth, it could be the earth itself has a bigger season cycle? For example it might be going into its spring period when the polar caps melt and the earth floods. then we go back to ice ages and so the whole thing goes but we dont see it because the cycle takes too long?

whats you theory on not believing global warming exists billy?

mad

I don't know much either, only that the so called experts keep changing their story. One minute it's global cooling the next it's global warming. The truth is they haven't got the foggiest IMO. We just don't know enough and like most professions it pays to follow the heard (must be easier to get funding for research that's likely to support this theory than refute it..). The scientists that argue against the global warming theory get marginalised and labelled as nutters yet the last one I heard on the radio was talking sense and picked hole after hole in the whole argument (will try and find the name of this guy, I made a note of it somewhere).


From the little I've read/heard, I think we over exaggerate our influence on the big picture. They reckon they can chart a clear pattern of global warming from the Industiral Revolution which I think is too narrow a timespan to be making such claims.

I reckon this is just another 'best guess' dressed as fact and the theory is used to explain a whole series of events that might well be tied in with the natural  state/evolution of the globe. If they're right about global warming then we're DOOMED regardless of what we do from here on in.

Fascinating subject and like I say I know very little but that's my two penneth.

Will. :)

tell that to the midgies up here wearing sunscreen ...

lolol

Peer Guardian doesnt stop your ip being transmitted, it stops certain ip addresses attacking you to see what you are up too(Ad agencies, government agencies etc) .  If you want to stop your ip being transmitted, you need to use other methods but you don't need to worry about it.  Poker sites will know your ip but people playing wont - it's not easy to find out and I'd say 99.999999999% of people playing poker don't want to know your computer details - playing poker is probably more profitable.

It's the bored teenagers that you need to worry about ;)

No, an unmarried moth is a myth

Yeah those oil companies are always paying for research to prove global warming.......

I tried turning my router off at night, but I couldn't get online to play poker.

 :D ;tk;

Oil companies will make money whatever the data says so that's neither here nor there. Your sarcasm is noted ta :)

I was trying to make the point that once a theory is accepted as 'fact' it's pretty tough to get funding that might lead to falsifying it. Scientists that argue against the theory of global warming are treated as heretics/lunatics. In twenty years they might be arguing the total opposite again.

Unless we're all underwater by then ::)

lol

Okay, you hooked me, I'm biting:

What please is the advantage of paying extra for static IPs? :)

Only really for using your IP connection for long distance phone calls or applications like CU-seeme, where you use a static address so that you can always be located.
Any other reason is a waste of money.

I Mainly use mine so that I can connect and use my pc while I am at clients (or abroad playing poker)

you a gigolo now paul ?

It may seem hard to believe, but I do actually do some Accounting work now and again!

poker , accounting , making babies..............do you EVER sleep ?

You could just use a dynamic dns service for that M3, plenty of free ones out there too.