Hello Al,
Good question. My guess is it won't hurt a thing. Electronics from my experience is unpredictable. A switch may last 1,000's of cycles on and off or it may fail within a hundred or less. You just never know. The rest of the electronics package in the router could be the same thing. I use to have to power cycle my router about once a week, sometimes more because the wireless would quit working for our family laptop. Now, for some unknown reason it's been working great for weeks without having to power cycle it. I'm wondering what is different but I'm sure I'll never know. Did Verizon update the firmware in the router without my knowing? There are so many updates going on in the background these days that we just have no idea what's being done to our stuff.
Worst case, if the router fails to turn on for you, you just make a call to Verizon and have them send you another one. No telling how long this would take though. I'm on my third router in two years now and a second power supply. I'm waiting for the next failure to happen. It took Verizon days to get me a router shipped to me. I'd like to have a spare but don't know how to go about getting one like theirs. Oh well, Happy computing!
