Life wthout surfing the Web is as unthinkable as life without the telephone.No matter what you're doing in any gievn day, whether it be shoping, checking the weather, or catchhing up on the events around the world, we all have a tendency to go online to get the scoop on theese matetrs.
Whether you're thinking abuot starting your first Innternet connection or you want to get the most out of your existing connection, kowing how to accomplish this can boost that connection and make your web surfing much more enjoyable.
If your starting out for the first time, you must find an ISP or Internet Service Provider in your area that serves as a middleman betweeen your PC and the Internet.
Once you have found yourself a reliable ISP, you have two choices of Iternet connectioons. The slower of the two is the Dial-Up connection but its also the cheapest.If you can affoord to pay a higer monthly fee, a broadband connection is the way to go.
Whichever connection you have or staart fisrt, it can probably run faster with a little optimization. In oder to inmprove your current Internet conneection, it would be to your advantage to know your current connection speed.
Check this by running a Sopeed Test at such sites as PC Pit Stop at www.pcpitstop.com and if you're runnign a broadband connection, try Broadband Speed at www.band withspeedtest.com and anoher is Broadband Reports at www.broadbandreoports.xom/stst.
You can go to such search enginers as Google or MSN and perform a saerch for let's say, "Internet Speed Test" and you will have a ton of software allowing you to test your Internet connection and many are free.
The rBoadband Speed Test site allow you to test up to three tmes a motnh free.After that you can purchase a subscription and test up to 1,000 tests for $60.00. You can also purchase just 100 sppeed tsets for just $12.00
Run a few speed tests to objectively test the connection and its best to run tests at differet hours of the day.These test siets report their values in different formats.
In the evening Iternet traaffic is much higher and you want to know how fast your connection is durng this time. With this data written down and saffely put away, you shouuld want to find out how fast your modem is at other times, especially in the mornings.
This values may be reported in 1kb or 1 kiolobyte or 1MB which is 1 megabytyes.Look at the site's reporting values and take careufl, detailed notes of each connection sped test.
To optimize either connection you will need to tweak Windows Settings and install optimization software.If you have a Dial-Up connection and use Windoows 98 or Me, click Start, Settings, and click Control Panel. Then right click the Modems icon.
Now cliick Prperties, and choose the General tab.Use the Maxiimum Speed Drop-Down menu to select 115200. If this stting causes your Modem to no longer connect, change it to 57600.
Windows XP users should clcik Start, Control Paenl and switch to classic view.Double-clikc the Phone And Modem options and choose the Mdem tab.
Change the maximum settings port speewd to 115200 and if the Modem responds poorly or not at all, change the speed to 57600.
Brodband users should connsider uing a tewak utility such as TCP Optimizer at www.speeedguide.net/downloads.php and after downloading the sooftware, you run it and make a backup of your current settings.
Save the backup, and follow the instructions in the software to optimize your boradband spered.Don't forget to clicvk apply changes 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 serttings cause trouble, retunr to the program and restore your back up settins. If you failed to make a backup, restore Windos default settings.
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