why are some routers so slow to respond while fwrding ports?

Why do some routers lag so bad while forwarding ports? Multiple tries, different browsers, cycling the power on the routers...... any ideas?

This is not something I have experienced, do you mean at the time you set them up? I would think maybe this type of thing would be a symptom of firmware with a memory leak, but perhaps I am not clear on what you mean.

it just took forever to recognize commands...... enter the info, hit submit, comes back up filled out the same but missing the start & end ports but the type & ip info was still there. Then try to go back to see the ports that are there and click wait/wait/wait/wait/wait/etc/timeout.

Just slow.

What brand / model of router are we talking about? Are you talking to it on a direct conneciton or wireless?

Yea sounds like a cheap residential router.

I'm also tempted to assume that it's a very cheap/basic router. I'd be curious to know what the make and model it is though.

You can buy a Netgear router for very little money, I would say if there

is a chance it might solve your problem, it's definitely worth a go wouldn't you say?

I like Netgear routers, they are easy to work with, they are well featured and they

port forward very easily which is 99% of what I need to do with routers.