Wife causing grief over fibre upgrade

Buy more smoke alarms and install them close to the new equipment, work out a plan to escape should there be a fire?

Ask for fire safety literature from the manufacturers, to try and reassure her?

Or could you place the main box and power outlet in a place that is separate from the main living space? E.g an attached garage with a fire retardent door or something?

Maybe first you could sit down with your wife and discuss the options, and see if there is anything that might reassure her? Just taking her fears seriously might go a long way to reassuring her.

I'm always a bit nervous about new electrical equipment myself, so we usually plug new things in and run them during the day and under supervision for the first few days, but turn it off at night, just to make sure it is not getting too hot etc. That might help her too?

Do let her know, fibre can’t cause a fire, it is impossible, it’s literally just signal light travelling through glass. There’s no electrical current in the fibre at all. As an MOD electronic engineer who worked on fibre and triax systems in the 1980s, I can say with total confidence: it’s basically impossible for fibre itself to ignite or overheat.” It's safer than the old copper telephone signal.

So are you going to keep us all in suspenders, what does it mean? 🤔

Why must the new router stay on overnight, btw? I've often switched my router off.

Did you find a compromise with her @Wibbles?

I would listen to her, right or wrong she is your wife, and thats important.

You can get smart plugs and set a schedule to turn these boxes off when not in use, although they design as always on devices, they wont break if only turned on when you use them. Just be aware when they turned on it might be a minute or so before the internet is online as things need to authenticate and synchronise.