Router requires resetting every few days

If I dont reset my homehub3 ever few days my internet, tv(wired) apps (iplayer,bbc news) become painfully slow or unusable, but as soon as I press reset and the router has finished resetting all is fine for another few days to a week. Sometimes pages wont even display as they time out and this even includes http://192.168.1.254/. I have tried this from my PC(wired),My media center PC(wired), my laptop(tried both wireless and wired), my Galaxy S3 phone(wireless). But they are all the same until I hit the rest button. This has been happening for about 8-9 weeks that I can remember and I'm running firmware V100R001C01B036SP03_L_B that I see was updated on 28/05/13, which seems to coincide with when I started getting problems. Anybody able to shed any light on fixing this?
Thanks

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Jonathan Kleinow wrote:
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