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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My post will probably get removed as being too short or whatever.

But imagine a super awesome, never stopping robot made of circuits. It just does its job over and over,.round and round and it does it well. This is what some routers or wireless are like

Now imagine yourself, a sack of meet. You need to sleep 8 hours every night to refresh your brain. This is the other type of router that you have. Powering it off and on refreshes the memory and such.

I can assure you, that in a network of 10 access points and 150 humans, we don’t need to reboot or turn them off.

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