Why does rebooting network router greatly improves wired network speed?

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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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Without a lot more technical details, it’s likely that there are some bugs in the software that over time cause the poor performance. Turning the device off and on again, cause it to start over without whatever bad state of memory is.

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