Common money-saving Wi-Fi trick that everyone uses can do more harm than good, Virgin Media boss warns

HOUSEHOLDS are breaking their broadband's 'golden rule' with a money-saving instrumentality that drastically slows down their speeds, a Virgin Media brag has warned.

And it tin adjacent marque you miss important calls, oregon incapable to seizure important information camera footage.

Roughly 1 successful 5 Virgin Media customers power disconnected their Hub overnight, according to caller research.

It's intended to prevention wealth connected vigor overnight.

But it forces your Wi-Fi to tally astatine a snail's gait erstwhile the router is rebooted.

It stops immoderate bundle updates that typically hap overnight, which tin pb to adjacent much broadband lags erstwhile you power it backmost connected successful the morning.

"Customers tin minimise immoderate imaginable disruption by keeping their hub connected - allowing updates to instrumentality spot automatically overnight - truthful their broadband and immoderate connected devices are acceptable erstwhile they request them," Virgin Media O2’s Director of Connectivity, Gareth Lister, told The Sun.

“We continuously show customers’ broadband show and whitethorn place issues overnight which tin beryllium fixed remotely.

"We’re incapable to bash this if the router is disconnected which is wherefore we urge customers permission them on."

Fortunately, adjacent if your router is switched disconnected astatine night, it volition person important bundle updates that support it against hacking arsenic soon arsenic it's turned backmost on.

But this atrocious broadband wont tin besides marque you miss important telephone calls, according to Lister.

“Many customers besides person location phones and astute devices similar speakers, TVs, doorbells and cameras that are connected to their location broadband," helium explained.

"If the hub is switched off, customers could find themselves incapable to usage their landline and these devices could halt working.”

Gadgets similar Ring doorbell cameras trust connected Wi-Fi to nonstop alerts erstwhile idiosyncratic is astatine your door.

Without Wi-Fi, you besides cannot prevention oregon reappraisal erstwhile recordings captured connected astir Ring devices.

So it's champion to support your router connected overnight successful lawsuit it does much harm than good.