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.
nice.
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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keep it up
thank you.
thanks for the tips i really feel this help me always
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
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
Thanks your tips system tweaks had really helped me out.
well great way of getting traffic man
IDM!!!!!!!!!!!!downloads>options>connection
change type/speed of connection lan100
change connection number from 8 to 16
press ok and it should be faster
omg , i didn’t found any help here .. anyway thanks
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.
doesn’t really help unless i upgrade my line. But I don’t want to live with it
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
Are u sure of these settings cuz nothing seems to change and how do u want me know to restore my old settings!!!!
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
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
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……
moron, you just wasted my time!
exactly i wasted like 10 mins on dis bullshit…stpz
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!
i agree very much.
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.
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