Nowadays, everyone seems to be in hurry. Everyone
wants quick access to everything. Slow internet always frustrate everyone.
Internet has become a part and parcel of our life. Every task, today, is done through internet.
Be it paying bills, filling forms, shopping, booking tickets or even finding
your life partner…. internet is used everywhere. But sometimes slow internet
disappoints you often. Slow internet often disrupts our daily activities. So,
to prevent these disruptions, I would share some tricks with you. These tricks
will increase internet speed. Though, these tricks to increase internet speed
would not make your internet speed super fast but just improve it from before.
Reasons for slow internet speed:
Low
Bandwidth of your spectrum.
Loose
wire connection in case of Broadband.
Interference of signals in case of wireless connection.
Slow
network in your area.
Increased disk space of your temporary files and cache files.
Tricks to increase internet speed:
i) Bandwidth reservation (only in Windows XP and
Vista)
1. Click on “start” on your taskbar and click run
option (shortcut key – windows button + R).
2. Type gpedit.msc and press enter. It will open
a window of “Local group Policy”.
3. Then expand the following keys on your left:
- Local Computer Policy.
- Computer configuration.
- Administration Templates.
- Network.
- QoS Packet Scheduler.
- Limit Reservable Bandwidth.
4. Click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth. It will
open a new window.
how to increase internet speed
5. By default, “not configured” option will be
selected. An operating system reserves 20% for its updation process. Click on
“enable” option and set bandwidth limit (%) to 0. Now, you will get the entire
speed for your surfing.
ii) Open DNS method
You can use open DNS in order to increase
internet speed on Windows. There are several advantage also in using Open DNS.
It protects your IP address from hacking attacks and infections. But you need
to update this process in a week.
1. Open Control Panel of your system and go to
- “Network sharing center” or “View network
status”.
- Search for network connection.
- click on Properties.
- Search for Internet protocol Version 4
(TCP/IPv4).
- Click on properties once again.
- Enter 208.67.222.222 in “preferred DNS server”
and 208.67.222.220 in “Alternate DNS server”.
- Now, exit the window bar.
2. Now, press windows button + R.
3. Type ipconfig/flushdns in the “Run” windows.
The method of Open DNS is now configured and completed.
At first, disable your antivirus program. Now
follow these steps:
1. Go to “Run” command and then type “temp”. A
temp folder will appear in your screen. (without quotes).
2. Select all files (shortcut key – ctrl + A).
3. Delete all files.
4. Now, go to “Run” command again and type
“%temp%” and press enter.
5. Select all files and delete it.
6. Again go to “Run” command and type “netsh
winsock reset”. A windows comes and goes.
7. Open “Run” command again, type “netsh int ip
resetlog.txt”. Again a windows comes and goes.
8. Then go to your web browser, click on
tools-Internet option-delete cookies and files. Press OK.
9. Restart your system manually. Then enable your
antivirus program.
10. Now, Check your download and upload speed by
following this link.
