eli5: why does turning my router off and turning it back on again make my internet so much faster?
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Most likely you have a lot of devices connecting to your router. When you reset your router, the devices reconnect, but they don’t do it immediately (they only do so as they need to). So for the short time while the device you’re using has reconnected, but other devices have not, it feels like your internet is faster.
If you can’t upgrade your actual internet speed, you might have to change some router settings to reduce the amount that some devices are using, or remove those devices from the network entirely.
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