My internet works perfectly at my mom's, but I just got to my dad's and it has slowed down considerably. It say's I have full bars or whatever, same as at my mom's house, but everything is just so much slower. Any ideas why? Thank you so much :)
Five answers:
2011-02-20 05:20:00 UTC
Apart from having sufficient RAM and processing speed below are the few tips to deal with slow internet:
Try and user Google chrome Its light weight and fast you can get it for free from the following URL http://www.google.com/chrome
Download any good System Cleaner and Internet Optimizer such as RegInOut from Intel Software Directory (http://ibx.intel.com/directory/ ) to clear Browser history and cache because when the cache gets full, your browsing will slow down.
Make sure system is free of Mal wares and viruses use Avast free and Malware Bytes (FREE)
Sometimes your DNS server is not fast enough you can experiment with some third party DNS server Such as OpenDNS http://www.opendns.com. I tested this with two ISP connections found it very useful with One of them, didn’t get much difference in case of second ISP.
Always try and use a download manager. There are many free options available
Make sure your system firewall in enable and managed to stop unwanted internet traffic
You can control access of programs to internet using windows Firewall
Cabell
2011-02-18 19:20:56 UTC
It depends on multiple variables from service provider, type of internet:dial-up satelite, cable,dsl, whether there paying $20 dollars or $100 dollars the cheap internet from time warner thats like $20 bucks only downloads at 256 kbits while the $40 dollar internet downloads at 2 mbits as you can see there is a huge difference between waiting 3 hours for 1 gigabyte to download and 1 hour for 1 gigabyte believe THERES a Huge difference
Rocket_Man32
2011-02-18 19:16:03 UTC
Maybe your mom has a better-high performance internet connection at her house and your dad has shitty internet. I depends what plan your parents have. If they pay more they must obviously have fater internet
reust
2016-11-30 03:30:07 UTC
aspects by potential of peroity(my own view element) : a million) connection speed 2) computing gadget speed 3) viruses (job trys to deliver packets form your computing gadget) 4) torrent downloads 5) downloading archives making use of accelator 6) massengers 7) consumer
2011-02-18 19:15:18 UTC
maybe your dad is a cheapskate and has a cheap internet connection
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