Sunday, September 1, 2013

How To Speed Up Your Internet Connection

This article describes how to boost Internet speed. Before proceeding for internet steps I would advise you to make sure there is nothing wrong with your computer by following required troubleshooting steps.

1. Optimize your machine:

Don’t blame your ISP or router device until you have full confidence on your machine performance. Kindly go through all the below steps and see if you need to perform any.

• Make necessary hard drive space

• Stop bad programs and services

• Update windows OS

• Update security patches

• Fix computer overheat

• Check for bad hardware

2.  Clear Temporary Files:

• Make Disk Clean Up

• Run Disk Defragmenter

• Run Check Disk for bad sector

3. Speed Up Computer Boot Process

• Verify Hardware or Driver Issues

4. Try Different Browser

5.  Registry Clean Up

6• Remove Background Program

7. Sometimes resetting network or device can solve your issue as it will start clear everything from device/ network and do fresh start. You can also try unplugging and plugging the network cable or power cable.

8. General Equipment Check:

• Make sure your physical connectivity between laptop/computer and router device is proper, also check hub connectivity. Check for signal strength on router device, router is very important as it prioritize and directs the internet traffic effectively.
9• Check for Any Device Conflict:

• Wireless router may conflict with your cordless phone or Wi-Fi camera. 3 varieties of wireless router such as 802.11 b, g, and n (2.4Ghz) or 802.11 a (5.8Ghz).

10• Contact you Internet Service Provider(ISP):
• Don’t hesitate to contact your ISP (Internet Service Provider), sometime issue could be from ISP and you are dying making it working by performing troubleshooting steps at your end. Just call your ISP and ask politely if any direct issue from their end.

11• Upgrade Router/Firewall:
• Check your router specification and network speed properties on your machine. If the slow internet is a regular problem router is not transmitting the required bandwidth. Just go and buy new router with good specs. Many old router device are not capable of transmitting Internet faster than 10 Mbps, even though local port transmits 100Mbps.

12• Update Router Firmware:
• You cannot ignore firmware upgrade, browse the manufacturer website and check for any firmware upgrade available.

13• Your Cable Modem could have died:
• Any electronic equipment performances degrade over time due to overheat or could cause damage.It drops your signal to noise ratio resulting in increase in number of resend packets. Try replacing cable, great and times saving if it works else replace cable modem.

14• Check for Program running without your knowledge:
• Go to Run, type cmd then enter “netstat –b>trace.txt”. This will generate the network traces in the working directory with file name trace.txt. This will give you an idea for any program running such as antivirus or other update.
                                       

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