How to make your internet connection faster ?

Yaaaaawn...

At-least 10,000 times, since 2000, in last 8 years I have google-d / MSN-ed / Yahoo-ed / Altavisat-ed and all other search engine-ed to find the right answer or tips and tricks or tweaks for the question as how do I make my Internet connection faster ?

No matter what type of connection I use, Dial up, EDGE, ADSL, broadband, cable or any such, I always feel to be slower than usual !!!

Why ??

While searching, I have learned few very important lesson and hard facts which I would like to share with my readers. Some of the facts are not that satisfactory for our mind but what to do, facts are like that.. Most of the time they are hard to believe !!

First and most important is to understanding our own limits

Many of us tends to overlook or simply forget the difference between Kilo Bytes and Kilo Bits. many of us wants to view Windows or our download manager reporting download speeds of 200 kbps+ with a connection in which ISP have promised to offer 256 kbps.

Matter of fact, all of our ISPs advertise their bandwidth in Kilobits per seconds, which is 8 times higher than Kilobytes per second, in which Windows or any other download manager would calculate the file transfer rate.

Meaning, in case of a 256 kbps connection, we are suppose to get 32 kilo bytes per second of download speed.

How do I make my Internet connection faster ?

Here is a hard fact. There are not much what we can do as an end use to make the actual Internet connection faster !!

Why cant I make my connection faster ?

In case of our Internet connection, there are very little control, which, as an end user we have over the allocated bandwidth by our ISP. For example, if I have subscribed to my ISP for a 256 kbps plan, then there is no way to obtain 300 kbps apart from upgrading the plan to a higher one.

Can any software tweak help ?

Most of the application builders try their best to provide their software with best and optimized settings to utilize the maximum available bandwidth, hence there are very little what we can to do squeeze more out of them. However, having said that, few application tends to perform better than others when it comes to using the bandwidth.

Try and use alternate browsers like FireFox / Opera against Internet Explorer. Some users like FireFox over Opera or IE where as many other would prefer to browse with Opera !!! By the way, do you know, Microsoft is coming out with Internet Explorer 8 ? The beta version of IE8 is available for download.

Blah Blah.. Read all that, but I still feel I am slower

Although there are not much we can do in terms of making the connection faster, but there are much can be done to make sure that we don’t waste the available bandwidth.

  • Auto-update of Installed software can run as a background process and eat up your available bandwidth to make your browsing experience slower. So you may turn off the auto-update of installed software and Windows to cut down the bandwidth utilization.
  • While we browse, we should look and stop any background application eating the available bandwidth. So many times I have found my P2P client is running in background, (under taskbar) hiding from my eyes and uploading the Linux distro which I have put on for download the other night.
  • Malware like Virus or a Spyware can always slow you down by utilizing your Internet connection for their own use. Always make sure you are using an up-to-date AntiVirus and AntiSpyware protection to keep the PC free of Virus and Spyware !! Mind you, your Windows comes with a built in AntiSpyware called Windows Defender (Vista or Win 7, in case of WinXP, one can download free)
  • Use of a firewall can help to stop unwanted apps to access the Internet.
  • If you need to download a large file, say about 50 MB or more, always try and use a File Transfer / download manager. There are many free options available, FlashGet / Free Download Manager (FDM) / Internet Download Manager (IDM).

Hey dude, you have missed a point !!

Do you think I have missed anything ? Please feel free to post a comment to let me and all other reads know as if there are any thing else can help us to make our connection faster.

Choto Cheeta on January 3, 2009 | Filed Under Windows

63 Comments

infra_red_dude (Anirudh)  on January 3rd, 2009

A very apt article Saurav. Will surely help a lot of people!

Choto Cheeta  on January 4th, 2009

Thanks for the comment bro.. & wish you a very happy new year..

Thanks.

Sanjay Sighania  on January 4th, 2009

hey this is an interesting blog. Keep writting as this cn be a learning exp for ignorant ppl like me.

bye
abu

tashi  on January 10th, 2009

ur blog was useful..but it did make me feel nomb coz ur words were discouraging…for internet users…i think a bit of thing bout speeding up ur net in p c can be done.i hav many hacker frens who hav done it.do check in my blog too.

Choto Cheeta  on January 10th, 2009

Hi tashi,

Thanks for your comment.

I have written at the beginning that facts are hard to believe but what to do, they are truth.

The point is simple. If your connection capacity is a certain kbps (numeric value) ex 256. Then there are no software method to make it work faster than that without the bandwidth upgrade :(

However, at the end, I have also requested all those who would feel that I have missed a point or 2, to share their thought or any other method which can help to make a connection faster.

Hence, if you know any tips or trick on this subject, please do share them :)

Thanks.

{DURGESH}  on January 10th, 2009

google chrome is much faster than opera, firefox and IE one should use this browser and i wanna know one thing how do download managers improves speed? in my case i’m using internet with ur suggested tata indicom hack in haier 3010 and i use DAP for downloading and this download manager sometimes give me awesome speed (5kbps to 9 kbps) while when i use my chrome’s download manager it only gives me 700-899 bps. i checked my connection on speedtest.net it told me 7-8 kbps of connection. how do it possible that i’m geting download speed much faster than my connection (9kbps on 7-8 kbps of connection)

Choto Cheeta  on January 10th, 2009

Hello Durgesh,

I did not get your question.

Can you please elaborate it a little.

Thanks.

Kamlesh  on January 12th, 2009

http://www.youtele.com– We abide by the TRAI guidelines by providing more than 80% of the susbcribed broadband connection speed between the ISP node and the user.

Just read on the above site so copy-pasting here for the knowledge of all -
Q.1:-Would like to understand the meaning of above statement.

I have bsnl-500 combmo plan.Speed is very good at early morning-Can get 225kbps download with download accelerator.
Day time and pick hrs r horrible.Sometimes can’t open the web page even.

Q2:-Some tricks in selecting networking-tcp/IP properties-IP address -DNS server–playes any roll in this??
Q3:- Is there anything availabel, helpful to increase the upload speed as well??Tips as above or any free software??

Badly need some solution.

Thanks in advance.

taashi  on January 13th, 2009

been throu ur blog updates,nice but some comments are funny and unamusing regard negative talks.check in for my security solutions.

taashi  on January 13th, 2009

theres nothing like google chrome being faster than opera or firefox.At low band width say using data card,opera is the fastest of all…next is firefox and least being IE6…safari are not bad either…google chrome is in beta version and needs real effort to catch up with others.I m an ardent user of internet and know the real strength of all those funny and filmsy gossip.I think a comment must be genuine and artifate with facts.check out my latest blog at my site…tashiwangdi.blogspot.com

techfreakindia  on January 16th, 2009

True , very true as far as spped is concerned you cannot do much but as far as browsing experience is concerned you can do a lot.

Disabling of background running program , auto-updates of programs , no use of flash/heavy graphics , blocking of pop-ups , use of browsers other than IE are some methods which helps.
The web is full of tricks and tweaks which is largely of no use.see one of my posting
[False tips on Blogs /Forums/ Groups to Improve Internet broadband speed in Vista,XP]
http://techfreakindia.blogspot.com/

No - Name  on January 18th, 2009

Great information. I will surely drop by Tips and tricks on how to make your internet connection faster | Choto … again soon….

prashant  on January 20th, 2009

i get 5-6 kbps speed when i download anything from internet
plzzzz give me some tricks to increase internet speed for better download

RIJI  on January 20th, 2009

Hi,

Can you please let us know that which ISP and what plan are you using ? Also which program have shown you that your speed is 6 kbps ??

Thanks,
Riji

techfreakindia  on January 21st, 2009

@prashant

Surely , you deserve a better speed then mentioned one , even if you are BSNL broadband user. Even BSNL broadband gives better speed during peak hours. The thing you fisrst check is “presence of spyware”. At this stage , I would suspect “spyware” only, which causes such a slow speed that too everytime. So do the following tasks

(1) Install latest Spybot and its definition file.Run it and ensure that your system is clean

(2)For troubleshooting purpose, remove all of browser toolbars and BHO components. Better installed freshly a copy of Chrome and check it.

(3)Run Avast antivirus too.
(4) Check the services which are running. Stop the unwanted , undesired services and observe.

To get better net connectivity your system must be properly tuned. Hence use system tuning measures regularly

techfreakindia  on January 21st, 2009

@prashant
Surely , you deserve a better speed then mentioned one , even if you are BSNL broadband user. Even BSNL broadband gives better speed during peak hours. The thing you fisrst check is “presence of spyware”. At this stage , I would suspect “spyware” only, which causes such a slow speed that too everytime. So do the following tasks

(1) Install latest Spybot and its definition file.Run it and ensure that your system is clean

(2)For troubleshooting purpose, remove all of browser toolbars and BHO components. Better installed freshly a copy of Chrome and check it.

(3)Run Avast antivirus too.
(4) Check the services which are running. Stop the unwanted , undesired services and observe.

To get better net connectivity your system must be properly tuned. Hence use system tuning measures regularly.

http://techfreakindia.blogspot.com

david  on January 26th, 2009

i like ur blog very much :)

i hav bsnl broadband connection unlimited plan in which the maximum speed mentioned is 256kbps…. but why does they limit my download speed to 30kbps????? why doesnt my speed reach atleast half of the specified value..???? :(
pls help bro :( :( :(

Choto Cheeta  on January 26th, 2009

HI David,

Thanks for your comment… However I do request you to please go through the post once again.. I have already given the answer..

First and most important is to understanding our own limits

Many of us tends to overlook or simply forget the difference between Kilo Bytes and Kilo Bits. many of us wants to view Windows or our download manager reporting download speeds of 200 kbps+ with a connection in which ISP have promised to offer 256 kbps.

Matter of fact, all of our ISPs advertise their bandwidth in Kilobits per seconds, which is 8 times higher than Kilobytes per second, in which Windows or any other download manager would calculate the file transfer rate.

Meaning, in case of a 256 kbps connection, we are suppose to get 32 kilo bytes per second of download speed.

I hope you get the point as the difference between Kilo Bits and Kilo Bytes !!!

Thanks

Sam  on March 12th, 2009

U don’t know the meaning between KBps and kbps

sm  on March 15th, 2009

good article,
you can read this article to incrase bandwidth by 20% free of cost .

http://ciscoconcepts.blogspot.com/2009/03/get-20-more-bandwidth-for-your-pc.html

Pana  on March 22nd, 2009

Well explained !! At least one person that tells the truth, and goes directly to the point.I like very much this site.Thanks, and continue with this type of posts.
Best regards.

5rose  on June 5th, 2009

@prashant

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James  on September 24th, 2009

I’d also recommend this tip I found if you’re using ADSL in the UK – remove the ring wire: http://broadband-speedup.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-do-it.html , improved my broadband speed by 0.7Mbs. Nice collection of tip by the way!! Line interference can make a lot of difference

M O  on November 25th, 2009

Well, the thing about making your internet connection faster… if you have not tried, maximising your bandwidth may help improve it. Windows only uses 80% of the capacity for internet, so you can change that through Group Policy Object Editor. Also, make sure all temporary internet files are deleted. Note that only windows disk cleaner will not work, so use other programs such as CCleaner, and tick just about every single box. But that was a very nice summary of all of the main things of internet connections. Thank you. =)

SIDDHARTH SHUBHAM  on December 19th, 2009

There is dam speed of aircel no one site will open quickly whereas google will also open plese make your aircel web fast

Choto Cheeta  on December 19th, 2009


SIDDHARTH SHUBHAM:

plese make your aircel web fast

AirCel, as per I know is a GSM operator hence they must be proving the data services either via GPRS or through EDGE network..

So, Make sure the device you are using to access internet, supports “EDGE” feature.

Secondly, even with EDGE, you would get a real time speed of 80 – 110 kil bits per second, meaning download speed of around 7 to 10 kbps..

Sorry but your connection can’t go faster than this :( , the limit is with its hardware so, no software modification would allow any thing faster..

Anonymous  on January 18th, 2010

Is there a way to hack our network speed or somethink liddat

bla  on January 23rd, 2010

hey dick head learn some more stuff about it then come and say it if u dont now then dont bother saying anything and if u want faster download search on google

how to make your download faster oky guys

eh  on February 5th, 2010

well someone’s parinoid jeez he was asking that to find out info.

R-Truth  on May 15th, 2010

Thanks for telling me about the difference between kilobits and kilobytes.

I have a 256 kbps internet connection and when I try to download something, my computer always tells me that the speed is something between 26 to 35 and I always thought that my internet speed was less than it should have been.

Thanks.

fazz36  on May 27th, 2010

i want to share with you my 4mbps speed secret.
i got 3.6mbps package from my providrer. and i can only get averagr speed at 1.8mbps only.
this is normal because provider usually limit the other half.
im paying for their service,thats why im furios when i know that fact.
after 5years of searching the right way to optimize my internet speed,i finally found this 100% guaranteed method.

i can now download 1G under 35minutes.
watch only movies without any buffer at all.just click and the movie play till ends.
if i download 10 files simutaneosly files IDM,i get average speed 10kb per download window.
my ping reduces -300. i got average 120 ping.

im thingking to sell this method via e-book for 40 dollars.
but i want to share with you first.and get your feedback.
thats why im personally sending you this message.

here my proof http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdaV7QD-f_8

heres direct link to go to the tutorial.its free for 1000 user before i shut this web down and start selling my e-book.

if you need anything to ask,just send me a message using my web chatbox.

thanx and enjoy your super speed internet.

Arvin  on June 9th, 2010

Globe Broadband Philippines, it’s a pure crap, NEVER USE IT

Alejandro  on June 20th, 2010

I recommend buying an usb modem… it pretty nice… i bought one of 3mbps , but the signal determinates the speed conection.. but the average speed connection is 1,5 mbps.. make sure the company is offering u hsdpa or umts to reach that speed, and u can also use edge if the signal is bad and it doesn’t support hsdpa.

Anup  on June 20th, 2010

hey thanks for ur post, one thing i will like to share with you, the brother of my one friend has 128 Kbps ADSL connection and normally the download speed should be about 13/14 kbps, but he downloads at the speed of 100/120 kbps using some proxy server. He wont tell me about that. Do u have any idea how to use it ? Can proxy server, Internet optimizer and some tweaks help me to gain faster speed? Please reply me@@

BN  on July 1st, 2010

Saya nak voting barisan nasional ni ok tak? Streamyx terlalu pantas buat ku. Lepas tu kena lancap kat dinding bodo la. Ini sikit tips buat u bro, guna mendepankan port modem lepastu bolehlah cepatkan internet. Nak tengok lucah pun boleh la bang.

GEORGE  on July 7th, 2010

IS THERE ANY FREE SOFTWARE TO BOOST UP THE SPEED OF MY INTERNET WITH MY BROADBAND SUN CONNECTION?

pascacio.lopez@hotmail.com  on September 8th, 2010

Can u help me mine goes like at 50kbps

HARMANPREET SINGH  on September 13th, 2010

sim change my best advice and extras internet related programme uninstall @
this is gurrenrted tips for high speed wanted user ?

Nelson Adhikari  on October 4th, 2010

hi
i think that it would help me
i hav 1 problem
1 hav 230.4 kbps wireless modem but toooomuch slow if any body have idea then plz send me okkkkkkkkkkkkk.
Nelson Adhikari

cj  on October 5th, 2010

hi frnds try my hacking trick and u can make your gprs for any service provider the extreme fastest.Normally speeds upto 2kbps to 25kbps.After hacking 75kbps to 90kbps. Email me if satisfied,unsatisfied,or facing problems. 1/note that gprs tower and calling network tower are different .The gprs tower is not shown in ur handset.But gprs tower depends on ur network tower. 2/you are going to connect your gprs enabled handset with a dish that comes with ur dish tv or tata sky…. 3/how? u have to bring out two wires one from the tower boosting socket its round golden colour having a hole in it near the nrtwork ic.And another from the tower ground and not the chasis ground.it may be a thin shit of copper or tin…. 4/then connect the two wires with the wire of the dish not connected with the dish box.no dish box is requred. 5/Am an expart hardware so dont try this with the cable line of local cable provider bec it possess live voltages. 6/so thats all try the ultimate speed with gprs using my tricks thanksssssssssss…

cj  on October 10th, 2010

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cj  on October 10th, 2010

my email address (santucj.9@gmail.com).

Annoyed  on October 31st, 2010

What the hell? I can see your English is extremely poor but if you’re going to write an article to practice your English, don’t be deceitful about it. I’ve wasted time clicking on your crappy article which claims to have information to make your internet speed faster, only to find out you’re completely lying and instead claim it can’t be made faster!

burd  on November 16th, 2010

i agree very much.

-(  on November 22nd, 2010

moron, you just wasted my time!

Randy  on November 28th, 2010

Dude, are you fu*ing stupid?

There was not a single helpful thing in there that anyone who has googled faster internet doesn’t know……

sam  on December 1st, 2010

you claim that the internet connection cannot be made faster…..I partially agree with you….. I am also a guy like you who has spent quite a lot of time on the web searching for the same thing and like you I have also learnt some hard facts, but they are not as disheartening as your facts are but they may be a bit scary. Few days ago I was reading an article over the internet-cannot remember the web address) about how an American ISP screwed it’s customers (with the help of FBI) for squeezing extra bandwidth and consequently resulting in slower service for other customers of that ISP. All the screwed people were computer experts…one of them was about to get an award from Microsoft for some contribution in windows media segment………………………so the bottomline is, if you have profound knowledge in computer science and know how to play safe…..the world is yours

august  on December 12th, 2010

they always being such a jerk, commented about the language .Come on ! Its (English) doesnt important at ALL , at least he got something while you got nothing .easily got annoyed with those kind of people ,grown up man

piyush  on December 24th, 2010

u r really irritating
u don”t even know what is the meaning of fast?
i have a tip
Trick To Make Your Firefox Fast

This Firefox tricks will improve the speed & load time of firefox. And you will be able to surf faster.

Type about:config in the address bar, Then look for the following entries, and make the corresponding changes.
network.http.max-connections-per-server =32
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy =16
network.http.max-connections = 64
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 10
network.http.pipelining = true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 200
network.http.request.max-start-delay = 0
network.http.proxy.pipelining = true
network.http.proxy.version = 1.0

Lastly right-click anywhere and select New- Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. Enjoy!!

if u use firefox then u can apply this tip

piyush  on December 24th, 2010

r u serious see his grammar is very week
u r really panic

david kimberley  on January 21st, 2011

doesn’t really help unless i upgrade my line. But I don’t want to live with it :)

Paul  on February 18th, 2011

Hi i had been with the same internet provider for about 5 years but all of a sudden my internet speed slowed i called the provider and they said they couldnt see any problems after a while i switched but i have the same problem. i can use the internet ok but it takes a while and i cannot watch youtube videos well i can but they take a while to load. My laptop is also new and i can use the internet fine if i go to a friends and connect to there wireless.

SubZero  on March 16th, 2011

omg , i didn’t found any help here .. anyway thanks

anonymous  on March 21st, 2011

IDM!!!!!!!!!!!!downloads>options>connection
change type/speed of connection lan100
change connection number from 8 to 16
press ok and it should be faster

Cybermania.org  on March 27th, 2011

well great way of getting traffic man ;-)

kamal soni  on April 22nd, 2011

Thanks your tips system tweaks had really helped me out.

pete  on June 11th, 2011

i was downloading today and my speed was around 400-500k a few weeks or more ago it was only around 300 strange……………any ideas

anonymous  on July 18th, 2011

Are u sure of these settings cuz nothing seems to change and how do u want me know to restore my old settings!!!!

Jason  on July 26th, 2011


piyush:

r u serious see his grammar is very week
u r really panic

Maybe you should try take a look at your own spelling and grammar before talking about others, pal. You’re not exactly the best english teacher yourself.

Rigved  on August 28th, 2011

If speed gets slowed down then there may be many reasons behind it
1]viruses,malwares,etc.
2]registry errors, broken shortcuts, heavily fragramented hard disk,
3]improper optimization of registry for your pc

I to choose all-in-one suites like
1]Iobit advanced system care
2]Tuneup utilities

hariram sigdel  on September 11th, 2011

thanks for the tips i really feel this help me always

pranab Bhai  on October 22nd, 2011

Up-to me it,s the very useful and only best blog
keep it up
thank you.

Stephanie  on November 2nd, 2011

What you read are true. The best way to make internet connection faster is to upgrade your internet speed from your ISP [internet service provider]….. If you try to buy some software they won’t do any justice if your internet speed is slow. I am a computer technician and that’s based on my experience. It would mostly cost you around $10 more to upgrade your internet speed to a minimum of 2.0mbps or higher. Browse for diff. deals to get the most out of it.
If your internet speed is around 2.0mbps and its still slow, try to see if its your computer’s fault. Try to uninstall unused programs and run a complete anti-virus scan. Hope this helps

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