Shutting the power off on your router and turning it back on . Rebooting your router will not give you a faster Internet speed not permanently anyway, but it can improve your Internet speed, in a way.
The router is the hardware, and within the hardware is software that is running the operation. Just like you may have to reboot your computer because it is running slow, the same also applies to a router. Occasionally, the hardware and software stop talking together correctly, and the reboot will re-sync them together, so that they are operating correctly.