Have you washed your router lately ?

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I am not sure if this is the right computer forum but....

Have you washed your router lately ? "Rob, what the hell are you talking about?".

Okay, you do speed tests and everything is fine. But you get slowdowns, long time to load a page. Maybe Netflix works but seems to take a long time to load the images. What is going on !!!

Before you drive yourself crazy, debugging your computers, etc. - when was the last time you completely reset your router? I don't mean reboot, power off, I mean reset back to factory settings, day 1 option?

I have owned several high end Netgear routers and have found that about once per year, when I notice the signs, I reset (using the pinhole reset button) the router back to day 1. It means also doing the other setup steps, setting your wireless passwords, etc. but that is easy. Just the normal setup.

Result ? BLISTERING speed ...again. I think the logs fill up and things you can't detect in the router because just clearing the logs doesn't fix it.

Your user manual tell you how to do a factory reset. It doesn't backlevel your firmware, just cleanly resets the router.

Hope this helps.
 
Congrats Rob. It never occurred to me to try that. I'll have to experiment.
 
Rob, I used to do that (reset my modem) every couple weeks or so (takes only a minute).
...Defrag, clean History, power off/on, clean unused programs (deletion), etc.

...Clean the dust inside the fans and the PC, blowing fresh pressurized air, isopropyl alcohol in all the contacts, ...

...Reset to a previous state (a week to a year prior), replace modem.

* My brother has the latest and most capable Mac, and everything is inside the screen itself.
 
NorthStar said:
Rob, I used to do that (reset my modem) every couple weeks or so (takes only a minute).
...Defrag, clean History, power off/on, clean unused programs (deletion), etc.

...Clean the dust inside the fans and the PC, blowing fresh pressurized air, isopropyl alcohol in all the contacts, ...

...Reset to a previous state (a week to a year prior), replace modem.

* My brother has the latest and most capable Mac, and everything is inside the screen itself.
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Yup...do all those things...but I am not talking modem reset. I am talking router hard reset to factory. Not sure about others but Netgear routers have a little hole in the back you press in for 7 seconds with a paper clip. It completely wipes your router settings (password, etc.) back to factory out of the box.

You after boot up, you either open an explorer window and it automatically goes to router setup (admin.password) or you put 192.168.1.1 in which is your router address and sign in. You can then re-setup your router protections, passwords (for wireless) and your admin password which I HIGHLY recommend.

The rest of what you mention is a must ....I have also stopped those google/adnet crap by blocking it with my TrendMicro anti-virus. So I don't see the ad's and my back button ALWAYS works...LOL
 
Yeah, by modem I meant router, with that small black round recessed dot (reset button) you press with a pen on the back.

___________________ Do you know Edward Snowden?

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* More and more people are going to jail because of their illegal activities on the Internet.
There are less and less places to hide as security is less and less secure.
And the direct information accessible today is simply mind boggling.
We live in a totally different world than say just ten years ago.

Yep, have you 'washed' your router lately?
 
After you wash your router don't forget to polish your balls. Here is the easiest way:

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Cool...yup..that's the reset...LOL

Don't know ED, but between him in the NSA, they must know us...glad my only vice is audio...LOL
 
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