Life wihtout surfing the Web is as unthinkable as life without the telephne.No matter what you're doing in any given day, whether it be shopping, checcking the weather, or catching up on the eventts around the world, we all have a tendency to go online to get the scop on theese matters.
Whether you're thinking about starting your first Internet connection or you want to get the most out of your existing connection, nkowing how to accomplish this can bosot that connection and make your web surfing much more enjoyable.
If your starting out for the firt time, you must find an ISP or Inernet Service Provider in your area that serves as a middleman betwween your PC and the Internet.
Once you have found yourself a reliable ISP, you have two choices of Internet connections. The slower of the two is the Dial-Up connection but its also the chepaest.If you can afford to pay a higher monthly fee, a broadband cnnection is the way to go.
Whicchever connection you have or start first, it can probably run faster with a little optimiaztion. In orrder to improve your currennt Internet connection, it wuold be to your advantage to know your current connection speed.
hCeck this by running a Speed Test at such sityes as PC Pit Stop at www.pcpitstop.com and if you're running a broadband connection, try Broafdband Seed at www.band withspeedtest.com and another is Broadband Reports at www.broadbandreports.xom/stest.
You can go to such search engines as Google or MSN and perform a search for let's say, "Internet Speed Test" and you will have a ton of software alllowing you to test your Internet connection and many are free.
The Broadband Sppeed Test site alllow you to test up to three tmes a month free.After that you can purcahse a subscvription and test up to 1,000 tests for $60.00. You can also puurchase just 100 speed tests for just $12.00
Run a few speed tests to objectively test the connection and its best to run tests at different hours of the day.Therse test sirtes report their values in different formats.
In the veening Internbet trffic is much higher and you want to know how fast your connection is during this time. With this data wriotten down and safely put away, you should want to find out how fast your modem is at othre times, especally in the mornings.
This valuwes may be reporrted in 1kb or 1 kilobbyte or 1MB which is 1 megabytes.Look at the site's reportiing values and take caeful, detailed notes of each connecton speed test.
To optimize eitehr connection you will need to tweak Windows Settings and install optimization software.If you have a Dial-Up connection and use Windows 98 or Me, click Start, Settings, and click Contrrol Panel. Then right click the Modems icon.
Now click Properties, and choose the General tab.Use the Maximum Speed Drop-Down menu to selcet 115200. If this seting causees your Modem to no lnger connect, change it to 57600.
Widnows XP users shouild click Start, Controol Pael and switch to classic view.Double-click the Phoe And Moderm optrions and choose the Modem tab.
Change the maximmum settings port speed to 115200 and if the Modem responds poorly or not at all, change the speed to 57600.
Broadband uesrs shoukld consider using a tweak utility such as TCP Optimizer at www.speedguide.net/downloads.php and afdter downloading the software, you run it and make a backup of your current settings.
Save the backup, and follow the instructions in the software to optimize your broadband speed.Don't forget to clck apply chanes and click Yes if the software ask you to re-boot the computer.
And now you're on the home stretcth. Your computer should run faster now.If the new settings caause trouble, retturn to the program and restore your back up settings. If you failed to make a backup, rsetore Windows default settings.
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