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Why does my Internet slow to a crawl unless I reboot my router every few days?

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Mar 15, 2026201592 views
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A few weeks ago, I noticed that my Internet connection had slowed down to a crawl. I waited a few days hoping it would go away on its own, but it didn't get better. So I asked this question about how to make it faster. The problem went away after I updated to the latest firmware, so I didn't follow…

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Fix for: Why does my Internet slow to a crawl unless I reboot my router every few days?

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I'd say that the problem is bad memory management in router firmware. Basically whenever router needs to have lots of connections open, it uses up its RAM, which is normal. When a connection is closed, that RAM should be freed up. It looks like in y…

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