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[pollux1er]

I open this subject for all of us. If somebody has some tips to boost the internet connection under windows, don't hesitate to post the tips for us to approve it. Thanks to all of you.

[electriic ink]

• Download the web browser Firefox.
  
  
• Adjust the settings listed here accordingly to boost your speed when using that browser

[serverph]

although some people may not approve of it, turn images OFF in your browser. that should make your page access faster, but not make your internet connection any faster more than it is.

[Sprnknwn]

But if you turn images off you would lost a lot of visual information, I wouldn´t do this unless it was imperative to get to read pages... and I´m not sure that it still exist so slow connections.

[SSBC]

electriic ink, on Feb 6 2007, 03:55 PM, said:

• Download the web browser Firefox.
  
  
• Adjust the settings listed here accordingly to boost your speed when using that browser

Wow, that actually works. I tryed it in firefox and it worked, but I usually use Opera. Oh well.
Still a good thing to know. Thanks for posting that.

EDIT:Small Typo

Edited by SSBC, 06 February 2007 - 07:56 PM.

[M45T3R]

You cant really "boost" your connection but you can do every thing not to get it "crowded" if it gets crowded(if you are downloading a 10 things at the time all that uses your connection speed and if its like mine 1 mbps it gets stuck all the time but i try not to play online games and download stuff at the same time
But you cant get better speed than you pay for !

[hitmanblood]

Yes you cannot really boost your conection because you are limited by the conncetion to the server that is your internet service provider. But however you can boost, your download speed as this is not limited with your connection in the most case but with the remote server. In this programs like download accelerator could help you because they start downloading several instances of the same file from the remote server and then compile it similar principle is used in torrent network.

So you can in fact increase your overall download rate but your connection is limited and only way to increase it is to pay for higher plan at your ISP.

[srujanlive]

Well said. You can't boost your internet connection greater than what the server rovides you. But sometimes some servers do behave mysteriously. Like I downloaded Ubuntu at speeds of 140KB/s on my 256kbps connection.

[megabytemb]

i bosted mine by 10 megabytes per second by makeing a dos comand that allows my ip adress to connect to your computer but there is a higher chance of getting virus and before you ask i can't find where i saved it

[rayzoredge]

I BELIEVE (and don't hold me to this) that for cable and DSL users, you CAN boost your bandwidth (not necessarily speed, but that ties in).

Unfortunately, these methods involve modifying the cable/DSL modem itself, as companies create "choke" limits to keep the cable/DSL modem running at a lower limit... probably to cheat you out of a possible 10Mbps? I wouldn't have the slightest clue on why they would do this... unless with the increased bandwidth you increase your traffic with your ISP, which means that there is more machine power dedicated to serving your network requests and stuff, which "slows" (but not too noticeably) everyone else using that ISP location down.

But then again, I'm not dead sure.

There are also some "hacks" that you can do to increase available bandwidth... like the infamous Windows Update choke. (It keeps 20% of your bandwidth reserved for updates in the background, supposedly.)

If you're interested in doing that, go to Start > Run... and run "gpedit.msc". You will be brought to the Groups Policy dialog. What you will be looking for will be located under Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Network > QoS Packet Scheduler (on the left-hand side folder tree). Under that, in the contents you will find a "Limit reservable bandwidth" setting. Double-click on this, ENABLE it, and set the variable to 0%. If you just leave it disabled, supposedly Windows still keeps that 20%... which really wouldn't surprise me.

That's all I know for now.