How often should you power cycle?

[RedBatman89]

My friend asked me this the other day. Typically I do it weekly or bi weekly. But he says he does it once a month. So what is the recommend amount?

 

[microchip]

if everything runs smoothly, you have little reason to reboot. I'm now on almost 80 days uptime without a single issue. This isn't Windows

 

[Deleted member 22229]

Agree there should be no reason to power cycle.

 

[Gregory Phillips]

It all depends on your particular use case scenario and the behavior of your equipment.

 

[RMerlin]

I have a customer's RT-AC68U which reached over 310 days of uptime before an extended power outage caused it to be rebooted.

 

[TonyH]

My friend asked me this the other day. Typically I do it weekly or bi weekly. But he says he does it once a month. So what is the recommend amount?

I never do it.

 

[Shamtes]

There is no "Recommended" power cycle time length. It's not really necessary to turn your device off just to give a rest from power. But I'm not saying it's a bad habit either. If you do it once a month then that's more than enough. And if you are doing it once a week, I would say it is too much.

 

[FTC]

Mine needs to be rebooted every 2-3 weeks. I have transmission running in background plus a set of quite active 20-30 devices, including IPTV, file servers, printers, and so on, with QoS and monitoring enabled.. and swapping enabled... with all of this the swapper file tends to start growing and the router reaches some instabilities after 2-3 weeks, usually not before the swap file usage reaches 30+ MB

 

[Raphie]

I do it once a week, scheduled on Sundaynight 03.00am

 

[RedBatman89]

I have a customer's RT-AC68U which reached over 310 days of uptime before an extended power outage caused it to be rebooted.

I'm guessing you rarely power cycle Rmerlin?

 

[z3r0k3wl]

I cycle when I install a new firmware.

 

[RMerlin]

I'm guessing you rarely power cycle Rmerlin?

My router rarely gets over a week of uptime due to flashing new test builds, so I'm not a good candidate.

 

[RedBatman89]

Okay I think from now on I'll only power cycle when I have an issue or installing new firmware.

 

[KevTech]

I never power cycle the router or the modem.

 

[goatdog]

every day on schedule

 

[dlandiss]

Okay I think from now on I'll only power cycle when I have an issue or installing new firmware.

That has been my policy for several years, and it has been satisfactory.

 

[sfx2000]

My friend asked me this the other day. Typically I do it weekly or bi weekly. But he says he does it once a month. So what is the recommend amount?

I reboot my pfSense router when there are security oriented updates - pretty much the only time.

 

[maxbraketorque]

I have an RT-AC68U that only gets rebooted at firmware updates or extended power outages that my UPS can't bridge. Its supporting a large anime collection via BT, a web server, wifi home security, a NAS for data backup of all the computers on the network, VPN to work, and 15 total devices (wired and wireless). I have not seen any network performance degradation attributable to the RT-AC68U. I pretty much run the latest ASUS firmware.

 

[lcc014]

Never unless during power outage or loss internet for no reason.

 

[Vexira]

i have it set for every day at 4am to clear the upnp issue i used to have where ports wouldnt clear for some absurd reason, kept it as habit now.