Will replacing my 5 year old internet router increase my internet connection?

[Phillip B]

I was in a houseshare until about a year ago where we had 20meg Virgin in a cabled area, so we knew we had a decent connection from house to Internet.

During the years I was there, it took the five of us about 18 months per wireless router to wear it out. They still worked fairly well wired, but wirelessly it would drop the signal and not allow one back onto it without a switch off/on.

So if you're usually running wireless, try plugging in and seeing how the connection is. If that makes the difference, then it's new router time :-)