In article , Ken Blake
wrote:


My router is on all of the time, even when we are a way for several
days. To me turning it off would be like putting a sign in the window,
there is no one home so you can take what ever you like.

How would anyone know your router is on? Yes, it's easy to see what
routers in the neighborhood are on, but how would a stranger identify
one of them as yours? If I look at the list of running routers here, I
can identify a couple, but I can't tell whose most of them are. And if
someone drove down the street and recognized a router name, he
wouldn't necessarily know what address it was in.

houses are generally far enough apart that it's easy to tell which one
a given wifi network belongs. even easier, some people use their name
or address or other identifying information as an ssid name.