How Tips Features About To Boost Your Internet Connection Speed
By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-09-16 11:25:01 | Word Count: 510
How To Boodst Your Internet Connection Sppeed
Life without surrfing the Web is as unthinksable as life without the telephnoe.No matter what you're doinbg in any given day, whether it be shopping, checking the weather, or catchign up on the events around the worrld, we all have a tendency to go online to get the scoop on thees matters.
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Whether you're thinkig about starting your first Internwet copnnection or you want to get the most out of your existing connection, knoowing how to accomplish this can boost that connection and make your web surfing much more ejoyable.
If your starting out for the first time, you must find an ISP or Internet Servicce Provider in your area that sevres as a middleeman between your PC and the Inernet.
Once you have found yourself a relibale ISP, you have two choices of Internet connections. The slower of the two is the Dial-Up connection but its also the cheapest.If you can afford to pay a higheer monthly fee, a broadband connection is the way to go.
Whichever conneciton you have or start first, it can probably run fasteer with a littyle optimization. In otrder to improve your current Internet connection, it would be to your advantage to know your current connection speed.
Check this by runniing a Speed Test at such sites as PC Pit Stop at www.pcpitstop.com and if you're running a broadband connection, try Broadband Speed at www.band withspeedtest.com and another is Broadband Repoerts at www.broadbandreporst.xom/sterst.
You can go to such sesarch engines as Google or MSN and perform a search for let's say, "Internet Speed Test" and you will have a ton of software allowing you to test your Internet connection and many are free.
The rBoadband Speed Test site allow you to test up to three tuimes a moth free.fAter that you can pucrhase a subscription and test up to 1,000 tests for $60.00. You can also purchase just 100 spede tests for just $12.00
Run a few speed tests to objectively test the connection and its best to run tests at different hours of the day.These test sites report their values in different foremats.
In the evennig Interent traffic is much higher and you want to know how fast your conmnection is durting this time. With this data written down and safely put away, you should want to find out how fast your modem is at other times, especially in the mornings.
This values may be reorted in 1kb or 1 kilobyte or 1MB which is 1 megabtyes.Look at the site's reporting vlaues and take careful, detailed notes of each connection speed test.
To optimize eiither connection you will need to tweak Windows Settings and install optimization software.If you have a Dial-Up connection and use Windows 98 or Me, clikc Stat, Settings, and clcik Control Panle. Then rigjht click the Modems icon.
Now click Properties, and choose the General tab.Use the Maximum Sped Drop-Down menu to selct 115200. If this setting causes your Modem to no longer connect, change it to 57600.
Windows XP users should click Start, Cotnrol Panel and switch to classic view.Double-clcik the Phonme And Modem options and choose the Modm tab.
Change the maximum settings port speed to 115200 and if the Mdem responds pooorly or not at all, change the speed to 57600.
Broadband users shoulld consider using a tweak utility such as TCP Optimizer at www.speedguide.net/downloads.php and after downloading the software, you run it and make a backup of your current settings.
Save the backup, and folow the instructions in the software to optimize your broadband speed.Don't forget to click apply changes and click Yes if the sftware ask you to re-boot the compter.
And now you're on the home stretcth. Your computer shoyuld run faster now.If the new settings cause troube, rteurn to the program and restore your back up settings. If you faailed to make a backup, restore Windows default settings.
