Thermal Issues With Home Internet Gateway/Router as a Cause of Dropped/Slow Internet or Wi-Fi Connection

I've been having issues for 4 weeks and support blamed towers that were being worked on and then just kept saythey were investigating the issue, being super nice, but never offering a solution. 

I felt for heat and felt a little but didn't think it was bad, I decided to try a laptop cooling fan anyway and within around 10 minutes everything came back blazing fast.  It's stayed so far longer than it has in 4 weeks.  

I decided I'd search to see if anyone else agreed about the overheating and I found your post.  I think you are definitely right and it irritates me badly that they know about this and never say a word!

My TV is over the internet and it has been awful.  Thank you for sharing your findings