In this article you will be learning some best working tricks and practices which can be used to improve your internet speed. Even If you have signed for a slow 2G Internet plans, you can still increase the speed of Internet by some techniques followed up in this article.
This article is a collection of some best known tricks to improve Internet speed. I have arranged 5 best tricks from most effective to least effective trick to improve Internet speed.
Domain Name Server or DNS is a server which simply converts the names of websites into their address, IP Address. Could you open Google by typing 173.194.36.34 in your browser?
Yeah! You can but could you remember these long 10 digits number to access Google? No, they are hard to remember. But could you use www.google.com to access Google? Yeah! It’s easy to remember.
DNS Server plays a major role in Internet speed.
When you type www.google.com in your Browser then your ISP’s Domain Name Server or DNS translates name, www.google.com into an address, 173.194.36.34 and then you are able to see public root directory of Google, Google’s homepage!
By switching to a fast and powerful DNS server, you can improve your internet experience along with speed.
1. Open Control Panel.
2. Switch to ‘Classic View’ if you haven’t yet.
3. Open ‘Network Connections’ by double clicking on it.
4. Now select your Connection, if it is LAN then select Local Area Network or if it is Modem then select your Modem.
5. Right click on your Network Connection, LAN or Modem
6. Select ‘Properties’
8. Properties dialog box will appear, Now click on ‘Networking’ tab.
9. Double click on ‘Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)’.
10. Select “Use the following DNS server addresses:”
11. Now in ‘Preferred DNS server” paste the following:
12. In ‘Alternate DNS server’ paste the following:
13. Click OK, Again Click OK, if prompted again click OK
14. Restart Computer.
How to change Domain Name Server in Windows Vista and Windows 7 or Windows 8?
1. Open ‘Control Panel’.
2. Open ‘Network and Internet’ from the ‘Control Panel’.
3. From ‘Network and Internet’, select ‘Network and Sharing Centre’.
4. Now select ‘Change adapter settings’ from left of the window.
5. Right click on your Network Connection, LAN or Modem or Wireless whatever.
6. Select Properties.
7. Make sure you have select Networking tab
8. Under section, ‘This connection uses the following items’, highlight Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), and click ‘Properties’.
9. Select option/radio button, saying “
Use the following DNS server addresses:” and enter the following-
In ‘Preferred DNS server:’ type: 8.8.8.8
In ‘Alternate DNS server:’ type: 8.8.4.4
10. Click OK and then Click OK again and restart your Computer.
If you find it difficult, check this article on Microsoft’s Website.
Linux users can do the above in Gnome PPP.
That’s it! Now your Internet Speed must have been increased. Your Internet speed would have been increase by 20%.
8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are DNS Server of Google.
2. Unlock your system reserved bandwidth
If you are using Windows Operating System then you might not be aware of fact that 20% of of your total Internet bandwidth is ‘Locked’ for ‘Windows Update’ purpose. If you will perform following tweak then you can Increase your Internet Speed by 20%!
In this trick we will unlock this pre-reserved internet speed by a simple and easy tweak.
Follow the given steps to unlock reserved bandwidth1. Go to Start, than Run
or
Press WinKey + R
2. In Run type
GPEDIT.MSC and hit Enter
3. Group Policy Editor Window will be launched.
4. From left hand side, Navigate to Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Network -> QOS Packet Scheduler
5. Now Look for setting like ‘Limit reserveable bandwidth’
6. Right click on ‘Limit reserveable bandwidth’ and select properties
7. By default it will set to ‘Not Configured’, Now Select ‘Enable’ and set Bandwidth Limit to 0%
8. Click on OK and Close Group Policy Editor Window
Please note that few versions of Windows doesn’t come with Group Policy Editor(or GPEDIT) installed and you might get a not found error, to fix this refer to this article.
3. Disable JavaScript in your browser:
Most of the websites on World Wide Web uses JavaScript on their pages. JavaScript is used to add some extra effects or feature in the page. JavaScript takes too much time to load and can be reason of delay in page loading time. When you are looking for information in text state then you can turn off JavaScript from your browser to make pages load much faster.
a. Steps to disable JavaScript in Mozilla Firefox
1. On the top menu bar, select Tools
[For Linux Users, On Top menu bar, select Edit]
2. Click on Options
[For Linux Users, Click on Preferences]
3. Navigate to Content Tab
4. Un-check Enable JavaScript option
5. Click on Ok
b.Steps to disable JavaScript in Internet Explorer
1. Click on Tool, present on top menu bar
2. Click on Internet Options
3. Navigate to Security Tab
4. Select Custom Level
5. Keep scrolling until you find a label named 'Scripting'
6. Under 'Active Scripting', select Disable and Click OK button
c.Steps to disable JavaScript in Google Chrome
1. On the Toolbar , Find and Click on Spanner Icon
2. Click on Options
3. Navigate under the Hood tab
4. Click on Content settings in the 'Privacy'
5. In the JavaScript section of Google chrome select Do not allow any sites to run JavaScript
For other Browsers, Look into the Manual of Browser or Search Google.
4. Turn off automatic updates
Windows has an inbuilt feature which downloads and installs new patches and updates in your computer when you get connected with Internet. These updates are most of the time very large in size and keep downloading in the background. Since downloading of updates goes on in the background, it leads to slow down of Internet speed. You can increase Internet speed by disabling automatic updates feature of Windows.
How Turning off Automatic Updates will Increase the Internet speed?
It's quite simple, once you turn off Automatic Updates feature in Windows, your Computer will never check for new updates and neither will it download them. So, there would be nothing to download in background and as a result your Internet will speed up.
How to turn-off Automatic Updates in Windows XP?
1. Open 'Control Panel'.
2. Make sure you have 'Classic view' enabled.
3. Double click on 'System'.
4. Navigate to 'Automatic Updates' tab.
5. From 'Automatic Updates' tab, Uncheck 'Keep my computer up to date.' and hit OK to save the settings.
That's it.
How to turn off Automatic Updates in Windows 7?
1. Click on Start button.
2. In Start, in search box type 'System and Security'.
3. Now move to 'Windows Update' and then 'Turn automatic updating on or off'.
4. Move to 'Important updates' section and from under it, select 'Never check for updates' from drop down menu.
5. Click on OK to save the settings.
That's it.
Please note: We have disabled Automatic Updates only to Increase Internet speed, it is recommend to manually check and download update(s) Once in a week or at least Once in a month.
5. Disable applications which are using your Internet connection
Some applications use your Internet connection in background for many things such as checking for new update, updating software etc. These applications will use your Internet connection every time when you are connected with Internet, even though it is not required. You can increase the speed of Internet by disabling Internet access of this kind of application.
Why Should I find which applications are using my internet Connection?
- to increase your current Internet speed
- to ensure, that no program is sending your Personal Data without your Permission, it might be hacker's virus program
- to save internet bandwidth
How can I know which Programs are Accessing my Internet Connection?
Just follow the Given Simple Steps:1. Download TCPEye from
here [Softpedia's Link]
2. Install TCPEye in your Computer
3. If you want to know which programs are using your Internet connection, launch TCPEye program.
4. When you will run TCPEye you will see different processes which are using your Internet Connection.
That’s It!
For Instance, If you will run TCPEye while using Firefox, you can observe Firefox’s process in TCPEye window.
If you want to block Internet Access for Particular program, Right Click on that Process, and Select End Process.
Tip: There might be too many SVCHOST process, it is suggested to terminate all the SVCHost processes and leave only one SVCHost Process.
There might be some programs which secretly (Not always) access your Internet connection, these types of Processes are normally under SVCHOST process. Expand SVCHost process and find the program and terminate its process.
Tip: If you are advance computer user, you may find some virus programs which are using your Internet connection. You should terminate these types of processes and should find the location of virus program and delete it permanently.
That’s it. These were Top #5 best internet tricks which one can perform to increase overall speed of the internet. If you find any difficulty or want to share your experience or know something more about it, you are always welcome to comment.
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