On 03/12/2018 18:57, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 03/12/2018 15:47, R D S wrote:
I've 80mb fibre at my workplace, and I get almost full speed.

But it gets slower and slower over the course of several days to the
point of unusability, then I reboot the router and it's flying again.

What would cause this? Stuff beyond my control, or is it possible it's
my gear?

Can you get any diagnostics out of the thing?

almost certainly.

I'd have a stab at a memory leak in the NAT software

+1

It's not a fancy setup, Technicolor router with a couple of PCs
plugged in and a downwind switch with a PC and a printer plugged into
that.
Laptop and mobile connecting wirelessly.

What could cause a network to clag up?

crap router software.

try a different router or upgrade its firmware

Or failing that force it to reboot at midnight - cheap timers are an
easy fix for a dodgy routers that have memory leaks (and some do).

I hate the ones that hide all the useful information (if they provide it
at all) behind some dreadful web interface that cannot easily be probed.

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Regards,
Martin Brown