Turning Modem and Router off for two weeks?

Would it have an effect on my Infinity profile if I turned off both the modem and router for a couple of weeks?
I ask mainly due to concern about the Openreach Modem potential for overheating.
Thanks for any advice.
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If switching it off for a fortnight causes any problems , then there are far more serious problems in the network than overheating modems.
We would never get any elecrical work done in our houses, and what about the occasional elecrical outages we all get from time to time
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If the servers are not needed, then powering them down seems a reasonable option.
Risks concerning hard drives seizing up disappeared several generations of disk drives back.... or maybe we just quit turning off computers and it just doesn't happen anymore.
On the other hand, it's unlikely that four servers are going to generate enough heat to be an issue. Today's servers are actually pretty heat tolerant in terms of ambient room temperature, and while you might not want to run a bunch of 'em in a 90F
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Thanks imjolly....
I'll definitely give it a try - hopefully things will start to bed down soon.
The problem with running the speedtester when it slows down is that it's so slow I simply can't run the speedtester - I can't access anything, so I have no way of measuring exactly how slow it's gone.
The hardware upgrade email I received on 7th Jul this year states
"Your line needs time to settle down
For the next ten days or so, your broadband might slow down or even stop now and again. That’s normal and your speed will soon settle down. You can help it along by leaving your BT Home Hub or router on all the time and using your broadband as much as you can for this period. "
Thats all fair enough, but nowhere does it give an indication of what is a reasonable period of time for it to "stop". It's almost as if the bb connection stops, as indicated above, but the equipment at the other end is unable to restart the connection and as a consequence I have to reboot my router to force the issue. As detailed above the process is also helped by "using your broadband connection as much as possible", but if it stops working as I've seen - I can't use it without restarting the router - so that puts me in a bit of a "chicken and egg situation".
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