topic Re: Wifi enabling and disabling on Router in Tech Help - Software/Hardware etc

Wifi enabling and disabling on Router

Ramverma92 — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 12:21:14 GMT

Hi,

I subscribed to Plusnet Broadband recently and was sent a router.

The router does not have a physical button to switch off and on wifi.

I do not generally keep wifi on and do not want it to be on by default. That said, once in a day I switch it on wifi for half an hour or so,

Because the router does not have manual/physical button to switch it on and off, I have to go Hub, which is not very convenient. Plusnet does not have a router that has a physcial button.

I will appreciate if there are other ways. I am not a tech person, so looking for something like may be a sub-router (which has a button) that I can plug into wire-LAN port into Plusnet router, etc. I do not know if it will work or any other simple solutions.

Thanks,

Ram

Re: Wifi enabling and disabling on Router

shutter — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 14:14:58 GMT

@Ramverma92 You do not say if your "router" is for ADSL broadband , or Fibre . which would be helpful to anyone trying to respond to your query.

Re: Wifi enabling and disabling on Router

Ramverma92 — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 14:32:51 GMT

Thanks.

I should have mentioned, it is for ADSL broadband

Re: Wifi enabling and disabling on Router

shutter — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 10:04:30 GMT

@Ramverma92 You do not "have to" use the Plusnet router supplied by Plusnet. !. you can source your own from Ebay, but you will have to make your own enquiries about how, or if, any particular router can have the WIFI switched off at the router.

Re: Wifi enabling and disabling on Router

Dan_the_Van — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 10:18:58 GMT

@Ramverma92

do you have an router from a previous provider, it maybe possible to repurpose it as a wireless access point.

Just confirm make and model, hopefully the community provide you with the necessary instructions

Dan.

Re: Wifi enabling and disabling on Router

jab1 — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 10:19:39 GMT

@Ramverma92 wrote:

Because the router does not have manual/physical button to switch it on and off, I have to go Hub, which is not very convenient. Plusnet does not have a router that has a physcial button.

I would have thought a quick move to the Hub interface would be preferable to getting up and walking to its physical location.

Re: Wifi enabling and disabling on Router

Townman — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 14:32:38 GMT

@shutter wrote:

@Ramverma92 You do not say if your "router" is for ADSL broadband , or Fibre . which would be helpful to anyone trying to respond to your query.

What bearing does the type of broadband connection have on the question or potential answers?

If you seek to infer which router might be in use here, determining that by the connectivity technology is a high risk approach.

@Ramverma92

What is it that you seek to mitigate by turning off the WiFi?

Security - a good password will deal with that
Control of child access to the internet - they can turn the wifi button back on - you would be better off setting parental controls in the router having changed the default admin password ... however we have seen ill-disciplined kids circumvent that by doing a factory reset on the router when their parents have left them unsupervised!
Saving electricity - no more than an odd copper or two over having the router switched on

So many devices now rely in being always on-line ... even down to the humble smart meter display unit.