Weird router issues

[kikatsu]

Not sure what is going on, but about a month ago, maybe two my router started acting up. My internet would just cut out randomly and I would have to go and reset it at least once every two days. As of late things seem to have been getting worse, usually cutting out at least twice a day but now I am graced with periods of impressive connection lag which the game's ping feature rated at nearly 30% loss and chat text lagging minutes behind when it was sent in the game chat.

I am posting this from the library so I can't give exact router specs at the moment, but this is really starting to get annoying and I may not have enough money to replace the router (car's making weird sounds, that is gonna cost something to fix)... so anyone have a good idea of what is going on or how I can fix this without replacing the router?