How To Speed Up Your Internet Connection
Here are a few tips on how to make your Windows broadband Internet connection faster. With technology developing quicker than speed, always be ahead of the times by learning how to speed up your Internet Connection.
Step 1: Broadband
Hello and welcome. In todays screen cast we'll show you two ways you can speed up your internet connection. To help you make sure you're making the most of your high speed broadband link through a cable or D S L modem.
Along the way you'll be checking how fast your machine runs, changing and updating software and system settings, then rechecking your network speed to see what impact your changes have made.
Step 2: Internet Connection Speed
To begin with lets take a look at how fast how your internet connection is running right now. Open internet explorer and navigate to www.internetfrog.com click on the link that reads- 'test the speed of your connection' in the quick tools area on the right hand side of that page.
This tool uses Java, so you may be asked to install Java, if its not already running on your machine, or to update some Java related tools if they need it.
Carry out this process until completion and you'll see the screen similar to the one now showing. It rates the download speed at 2.96 megabits per second and the upload speed at 259 kilobits per second.
Write these numbers down some where because you will be comparing them, with identical measurements at the end of the screen cast.
Step 3: LAN Settings
Next, lets make the first of our system changes. In the internet explorer click on the tools menu entry, select internet options, and then click on the connections tab at the middle right, and click on the LAN settings button at the bottom right of that pane.
The local area network, LAN settings window pops up on your screen as shown. Make sure all three check boxes in that window are unchecked, then click the OK button at the bottom of the window. click OK in the internet options window to apply these changes and close the window. That concludes step one.
Step 4: Windows Sockets
Now lets rebuild your windows sockets, also known as Win sock that windows uses to control input and output of data across windows connections.
Overtime this interface can get gummed up with Spy ware or other software that gets installed on your machine in the course of ordinary internet use. Point internet explore to WWW.SNAP FILES.COM, then type win sock in the search window at the upper right of that screen as we show you here and click the search button.
Win sock XP fix shows up in the search results. Click that name to get to the download page for this free software. Scroll down until you see the download button then click it.
A security prompt may pop up at the top of your screen as shown, click on that prompt and then click download file to begin the download process. On the resulting file download window, click one to download and install the software on your PC, because this program is not digitally signed, IE may show a security warning and ask you if you really want to run the file. Click the run button to proceed.
The VB win fix 1.2 button will appear on your screen as shown. Click the fix button to repair your win sock installation, then click yes when the program asks you if you want to apply the win sock fix. You will see various progress messages as the program proceeds and then be asked if you want to reboot your PC. You will but don't click the yes button in that reboot notice window until you've saved any work you might have unfinished in other program windows, when you do click this button your PC will shut down all open programs and restart itself. This also concludes the second of the four speed up steps.
Step 5: Improved Connectivity
To see how much good these first two changes have done you can return to the internet at www.frog.com to run the speed test again. You should see improvement something like what we experienced in our test run, where upload speed increased from 259 to 265 kilobits per second and download speed from 2.96 to 2.99 megabits per second.
For a relatively modest effort you can indeed make more out of your internet connection. Please go to digital landing.com for more information, other screen casts and articles about your digital lifestyle
