My router is on appliance timer to shut off and turn back on at about 3 AM because long ago I found rebooting it keeps it running at optimal speed. I did a test: file transfer between 2 computers on my home network averaged 10mbit/sec before restarting and can reach 100 (both computer’s max speed) after restarting.
I tried Googling but they all refer to wifi even when I searched for wired network -wifi (I guess Google is sometimes stupid about understanding my search query)
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Not enough information, but you need to define speed. The router also has to keep track of the NAT table, Network Address Translation, which helps it know whats the best path to the next connection on the ISP, etc. A lot of ISP issued modems/routers are on the cheaper side and may not have much capacity so the NAT table can fill up and this can cause slowdown in general for the initial access of sites. Like first time you load reddit for the day is slow, but then the rest of the usage is usually fine.
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