Increase internet speed?

Philippines
December 23, 2011 5:17am CST
Good day everyone! Anyone of you here knows how to increase or boost internet connection? I'm using a broadband device. Your response would really very appreciated. Thanks!
3 responses
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
23 Dec 11
There are many programs available which CLAIM to increase the speed of your connection. NONE of them actually can. The speed of your connection is set by your Internet provider and may be influenced by the quality of your phone or cable line, the distance you are from the provider's hub and the number of subscribers using the same line. If your speed is QUOTED as 10Mbps, then you should be able to achieve close to this for downloads when you run a speed test. Upload speeds will be much less. What your ISP quotes is the maximum speed which you can theoretically achieve. You cannot do anything to increase it except by upgrading your package with your ISP. If, when you test your speed, you are consistently getting less than about 75% of the quoted speed, you should definitely complain to your provider. So called 'speed boosters' work mostly by managing the browser cache and tweaking some of the settings in Windows, so increasing the apparent speed with which some pages load. This has NOTHING to do with the real speed of your Internet connection. Most 'speed boosters', especially the free and cheap ones, actually do nothing at all which you cannot achieve free by changing the settings yourself. They are certainly NOT worth the price that many people charge. All that any of them can do is to help your browser to load pages which you visit regularly a little faster by saving chunks of the page so that you don't need to download them again.
@Jhovarie (1168)
• Philippines
23 Dec 11
i agree with you there is a maximum internet speed provided by isp but some times if you are from the area that internet connection is slow you need to do something to increase your internet connection speed one of that is to make external antenna.
• Philippines
27 Dec 11
Hi, owlwings! Thanks a lot for providing such a comprehensive info. I appreciated it! :) The things you said here really are helpful. Now I got an idea, speed boosters are not really boosting your connection. I'll tweak it myself.hehe. What I'm referring here is the mobile broadband that I'm using on my netbook but what you provided also helped as I have cable connection at home. I am always sorting out to improve its connection through the programs I see on the net but maybe I won't now. hehe. Thanks again,owlwings..:)
@DoctorDidi (7018)
• India
27 Dec 11
Is there really any such way to increase or boost internet connection? There are many who claim to advise different programmes for the purpose but I have no faith in any of them.
• Philippines
27 Dec 11
Yeah me,too. I have tried one before and I just wasted my money because it's not what I expected as what they have claimed it to be. You just really have to be cautious and not to believe all those stuffs.
• India
27 Dec 11
yes their are so many ways to speed up you connection but only to a limited extention, its totally depends on your service provider that how much speed they are offering, and if you want to experience the real speed , use 3G, its giving excellent speed.
• India
27 Dec 11
yes, you can increase the speed depending upon the broadband you are using their are so many speed increasing plans many service provider are using.