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It's a fact of life that consumer-grade routers can be a bit… rubbish. Sure, you can solve many of your internet-related woes by buying a bunch of high-end gear and then connecting to a high-speed internet pipe, but most people don't have the cash or inclination to do that. Most people just want their reels to load faster.

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I've been in tech now for three decades, and one thing I've known since the dawn of time -- when internet bits flowed at speeds that seem glacial by today's standards through modems attached to beige desktop PCs -- is that one guaranteed way to speed up an internet connection is to reboot a router.