How do I speed up my internet connection?
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go for a broadband connection.
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you can get improved downloads by getting the free program called   free download manager,  it is free!  it will not speed of your computer but it makes more channels available for the data to enter you computer so you get the data a little faster,, also if you have to reconnect it starts were you left off so you do not have to start all over,, just go to www.freedownloadmanager.com or do a general search for it,, there are lmany sites were you can download free stuff like games, security programs,,, try tucows, or just type "free downloads" "freeware" etc in the search bar!!!!
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There can be only one way to increase the download speed- get a faster internet connection. It can be cable or DSL or any other depending whats you current connection and whats avaialble in your area.\n\nSoftware like download managers just let you effectively use whatever bandwidth is available to you. They dont increase the bandwith.
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go to www.toast.net\nclick internet speed test\nin the first box you see on the next screen click "shuttle + text"\nin the second box click your internet service provider, and if it isnt listed click "yahoo"\nthen when the next screen pops up your connection speed on top.\n\n(if you mean your computer speed, i do apologize, for i do not know how to obtain that info for you. however if you are curious what your internet speed is, now you know how to find it out)
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You cant improve the speed much. You can download any free internet boosting software. Also, try increasing the cache size of your browser. This will help if there are certain sites you visit frequently. The offline content stored in the cache will make the page load faster. nothing much else you can do i guess..
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http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/\n\nThe only true way to know if your connection is slow is to run a free bandwidth test. Click on the link (above/below) to run this test. Answer two simple questions (connection type and location) and hit test.\n\nIf your connection is considerably slower than what your ISP states it should be, then you need to call their tech support people and open a service ticket with them. \n\nHope this helps.\n\nPS - I have Comcast Hi-Speed Internet (cable) and these are the results from my test.\n\nCommunications 1.5 megabits per second\nStorage 184.9 kilobytes per second\n1MB file download 5.5 seconds\nSubjective rating Great
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lol.. no. my wireless connection is better than that. Get Earthlink DSl (yes earthlink sells DSL) or verizon DSl thats much faster.
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im using throttle its really magnificent\nit makes ur dial-up speed like a ADSL(200 more)\ntry it from http://www.throttle.com
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download.com\n get counterspy\nand adware\nrun scans\nthen remove spyware\nget some thing at download.com\nthat will make your computer go faster\nactually get dsl
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You can select a lower connection speed. If that doesn't work, email them. I had that problem too!
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set the NIC speed to a lower number on the computer you wish to b/w limit ... understand that the bandwidth you get from your internet provider is (under ideal conditions) 5Mb up and 5 Mb down (reality is more like >400Kb up and 5Mb down) ...  unless you are downloading huge files, you wont really impact each other... its unlikely that you will see much difference in performance unless you are using some really antiquated junk
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You may be able to get a little bit more speed by adjusting the Maximum Transmitable Unit (MTU) size for the TCP/IP stack used by your operating system.  This is usually set for LAN (Local Area Network) connectivity, but can be adjusted to get better performance over internet connections.  You can search for "MTU Adjustment" as well as the name of your operating system in order to find sites that may have utilities for you to do this easily.\n\nDo note: your download speeds are also limited by the available bandwith which might be regulated by the remote site.  Some servers specifically limit the amount of bandwidth that they use to serve files and information, so that they can transmit to several different clients at once.  Just because you may be receiving a file at 20k/s from one site doesn't mean that you could not also be receiving another file at a different site simultaneously with the same or higher speed.\n\nAlso, DSL can be limited by your provider.  Some of them charge a premium for higher bandwidth speeds.  You need to see what your provider gives you as a maximum.
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its the server or yer isp provider\n\ngo here...broadbandreports.com and do a couple speed tests
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Thats all you get! sorry\n\nIf you feel the performance is sluggish for what you pay, call up ISP perhaps the line is down.\n\nor you could try tweaking registry ... i recommend a 15 day trial "tune up utilities 2006" to do the internet optimisation in that.
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Unfortunately there's not a lot you can do to increase the speed tremendously, however I have some tips to make things slightly faster.\n\n1.  Make sure your phone has FULL signal.\n2.  For web browsing:  You can use a proxy and image optimization tool.  Cingular and Verizon bundle these with the cards/access software that they provide.  Verizon's is called Venturi.  They require an appliance instlled at the provider's side for the proxy optimization to work but the image quality adjustments will probably help you a bit as well. You might be able to use Venturi for image quality optimization.  Go to link #1 below to download the client.  No promises.\n3.  For web browsing, You can also turn off the downloading of images all together.  When the web page finishes loading you can then download only the images you want by right-clicking on the image place holder.  Link #2 below demonstrates how to turn off image resizing but if you look in the illustration you can see the check boxes to configure other optimization settings such as not playing video in a web page.  There are also tools out there that will block any ad banners from being loaded.  The same effect will be had by disabling images however.\n4.  If you are looking to increase general download speeds such as with Outlook, multimedia streaming, downloading from download.com, etc.  The only way I know to increase that speed is to get the best possible signal you can.\n\nThe final option which I know is probably not a good solution for you is to go to a different provider.  Verizon offers EVDO which gives me on average about 5-6 times the speed of EDGE and Verizon offers EVDO in a lot of metro areas these days.
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Cable modem is the fastest connection speed. If you have that and still have problems run crap cleaner on you system with the link below. Read the information on it first to see what all it does. It may help if you start the movie and then pause it for a while before trying to watch it\n\nhttp://www.ccleaner.com/
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No. Your Internet Service Provider has a certain allowable upload + download bandwidth limit which will only allow you to obtain a set limit.\n\nHaving two connections going will not increase your internet speed, but only waste your system resources.