if you are lagging with the router installed and with it not intalled it is not the router causing the lag. this doesn't mean its not helping cause lag but its nnot the primary source.
nighttime lag could be caused by any number of things. if your on a cable internet it could be that alot of people in your area are all online at the same time.
it could be a router between you and the servers having timeout problems.
it could also be the server host
i would probably start by doing a tracert on the servers your lagging on to see if a router is going bad somewhere between your house and the server.
to do a tracert click start goto "run" and type "cmd" without quotes into the box and hit enter.
now a dos screen will come up
in the window type "tracert 127.0.0.1" without quotes and with 127.0.0.1 being the server ip. you don't ned the port number of the server
click enter
now a report will start to display. look for anything that says "timeout" of has a higher ping then 40ms.
if you see timeout of a high ping then that router is causing the problems.
nothing you can do to fix it but at least you may know where the lag comes from .
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