Get the best of your internet connection by speeding it up on Windows PCs.
Internet has become an integral part of our life. Our day starts with internet and ends up with the same. Messaging to browsing, listening to watching and what else we search on the internet.
But often internet usage depends on its speed and smooth performance. The faster the internet connection, the more we like to use the internet. Most of us get frustrated because of sluggish behaviour of our internet connection. So to help you to squeeze the best of your internet, here are some of the TIPPY & TRICKY that you can try out yourself simply on your Windows PC:
Hardware Part
TIPPY & TRICKY NO. 1 -
Contact your ISP(Internet Service provider) for checking your Internet speed and other info.
The first and most important step towards getting better performance of yourn internet is to contact your ISP and ask him to tell all about your internet plan details. Ask him to say you about how much speed you are getting of what you are paying for. Then go to www.speedtest.net and have an internet speed test. Compare the results with the speed that is provided by your ISP. If it doesn't, then ask them to provide you the support for your issue.
TIPPY & TRICKY NO. 2 -
Check your internet hardware and replace them if needed.
Without any components that require to connect to the internet makes impossible thing to surf the web. Therefore, it is highly recommended that you always check the harware components that connect you to the internet such as:
1. Wires & LAN cables - Check whether these cables damaged or got loosed. Make them correct or get them fixed. Using old LAN cables as well as network connecting wires could also effect the speed of your internet. Use high quality wires and cables and I am sure that there would be an improvement in your internet speed. Frequent drops of the connection could also be fixed using this given solution in this point.
2. A better quality ADSL Filter: Using a good quality of ADSL Filter or Line Splitter as shown in the image above could improve your internet speed drastically. These splitter are continuously getting improved day by day and their new models are also being released in the market yearly almost. So, getting the latest piece for your wires to get split would make your internet connection get better.
3. Use of High-End Modems and Routers: Nowadays the modems and routers have been improved so drastically over the past years. A person cannot think of internet without a modem and also the first image that comes to his mind is a Black or White coloured Box like components which mostly have some antennas on it. So, buying a high quality as well as spending some more money on this component would help you internet to get a good helping hand.
Software Part
TIPPY & TRICKY NO.3 -
Uninstall internet eating programs
Check for software and programs on your Windows PC that consumes internet at the background. To check that which program is consuming up most of your internet resource then just Right Click on the taskbar and click on task manager. Here check for the program that is having a higher percentage of network and then end its task. If you want to uninstall it then you are free to do so (Since I have no control on your PC. It's yours. Do whatever you like). But please note that not to uninstall or end the task of a program that is required for the Operating System to function.
TIPPY & TRICKY NO.4 -
Have a good antivirus software
You might be thinking that why is it related to antivirus software for this topic? Actually it matters because there might be one, two, three or one thousand viruses, malwares or trojans on your PC that might have come from the sources that you don't know of. In this situation, an Antivirus program comes in handy. These malwares and viruses continuously run in the background and send private data to the hacker, resulting in consuming up the internet bandwidth. Thus, having a Good Antivirus Software would be a good choice. I don't recommend a free Antivirus software because they are limited. Any known paid Antivirus Software would be a good choice for your PC's health because almost all the Antiviruses are good enough if they are paid ones.
TIPPY & TRICKY NO.5 -
Use better & Update your Web Browsers
Only hardware is not important for browsing the internet. There must some means of communication to connect to the internet by the software side. So these needs are fulfilled by Web Browsers. No need of explaination about it because a person having internet will surely know about it. But using a known Web Browser would help your inetrnet speed to boost up. Thus, I would recommend you use web browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge. These are the best known browsers in the world that are ever made.
But the most important part is to update these browser as new technology releases and these browsers are too updated with these new technologies and features. So, from your side you too have to update your browsers. Here are the articles on how to update your browsers:
For Google Chrome, Click Here
For Mozilla Firefox, Click Here
For Opera, Click Here
For Microsoft Edge, this browser is updated automatically through the windows updates and soon it's update will also get separated from Windows Update.
TIPPY & TRICKY NO.6 -
Update your Modem's or router's firmware
What is actually a firmware? A firmware is a kind of software that makes a modem or router to function. I won't go much detail on it. So, the most relevant way to improve your internet connection speed is to update your router's firmware. Firmware updates improves the performance of your router enabling it to give a good internet speed. Thus, upgrading your router's firmware is the best choice. To do so, just go to Google and enter your router's vendor and model no. along with firmware upgrade and you would get appropriate results. But please don't go to third party website to do so as it may also brick your router and then it would be just a plastic model.
TIPPY & TRICKY NO.7 -
Password protect your WiFi
Protecting your WiFi is a good choice because other people stealing your internet resource from you could result in slow internet speed. Thus, preventing them from stealing up your internet by protecting your WiFi signal by password is a good choice. Now the question is "How to do that?". The most simple answer is Google it up. Just type your router model, also its vendor along with Wireless setup and you wll get the best results.
TIPPY & TRICKY NO.8 -
Change your DNS server
Now again the question is "What is DNS Server?". Let me explain it to you. DNS server is like an IP address in the form of 117.168.xxx.xxx, not necessary the numbers be the same. So, what it does is that when you search for any website, let's take an example www.google.com then this DNS server converts this web address into the format of any IP address type making it understandable by the server. So, when you type www.google.com then it is recieved by the server as 216.58.199.142.
So, actually what does happen on changing my DNS server. See, our ISPs appoint us their own DNS servers which may be sometimes slow. But using public free DNS server of Google or others like OpenDNS can improve your internet speed a lot. This is one of my favourite solution. DNS servers of Google and OpenDNS are:
Google Public DNS server - Primary : 8.8.8.8
Secondary : 8.8.4.4
OpenDNS DNS server - Primary : 208.67.222.222
Secondary : 208.67.220.220
Now the question is "What would I do with these IPs?" So, you have to change the DNS server on your PC. Here is an article on how to do that - Click Here on How to change your DNS server.
Tippy & Tricky No. 9
Update your network drivers
Updating your network adapter drivers could also help you improve your internet connection speed because using an old network driver could make your internet speed sluggish. As new versions of drivers arrive, they provide a lot of important bug fixes and also some new features. So, if you are facing some issue of continuous internet drops or very slow internet or weak WiFi signal, then try this trick. Here is an article on how to update your drivers - Click Here
The Conclusion
These were my opinions on How to get the best of your internet. I am sure that these TIPPY & TRICKY would help you getting covered on your topic and solve all your problems being faced. If you have any correction or any suggestions or any questions then please feel free to write in comment, contact or email me out. So, if it helped for you then I feel happy that somebody got helped out because of me.