eli5: why does turning my router off and turning it back on again make my internet so much faster?
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So first off, if your setup is slow/lagging and rebooting it fixes that… There’s likely something wrong, or someone is using up your internet bandwidth.
THAT said, the ELI5 part… Restarting the router kills all the connections and basically reconnects everything from scratch. It clears erroneous information, fixes conflicts, clears memory buffers of possible issues. There are a lot of ‘moving parts’ in networking, and some of that stuff isn’t auto-correcting.
Think of it like… counting to 100, and you get confused where you were at and miss some numbers. Starting over is the best way to ‘reset’ and ensure you counted all the numbers.
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