Are you one of them who are Frustrated with slow internet speed, Many people are having this same problem. Nobody likes buffering slow internet speed while watching a video, Websites, high ping when playing games. So don't worry we are here to give you some awesome ideas and tricks to increase your internet speed, These ideas and tricks will help you a lot to get rid of this problem. So scroll down, and read the ideas and tricks given below.
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These are some ways to increase internet speed.
- Choose the best internet provider, Which provides high-speed internet in your locality/area. This is one of the most primary reasons for slow-speed internet.
- Make sure you are closer to the wifi/ router.
- Use a Router having an antenna, if not then add an antenna to your router.
- Switch off background data uses of unnecessary applications.
- Regularly Restart your router.
- Use Ethernet cables.
- Shorten your ethernet cable.
- Check your bandwidth hogs and error.
- Upgrade your router firmware and internet driver.
- Check-in which place of your house has the highest signal strength/internet speed.
- Clean unnecessary browser cache and cookies.
- Use Antivirus/security application to scan viruses, malware, Junk files, and Wifi connection.
1. Choose the best internet provider, Which provides high-speed internet in your locality/area. This is one of the most primary reasons for slow-speed internet.
This is the main reason for slow-speed internet. Internet speed highly depends on the internet service provider from which you are taking internet connection. It does not mean that the internet provider is not good or cheating us. But the main reason is that due to heavy load on the server/transmission tower, it is because too many people use the same internet service. Hence it affects the speed. By switching to another service provider may solve this problem if this provider has fewer users than the 1st one.
2. Make sure you are closer to the wifi/ router.
Moving closer to our router or bringing our router closer to you is a good idea to increase internet speed, in this way our signal strength becomes very strong and similarly, the internet speed improves. But when we are far from the router the signal strength is very which causes slow internet speed or sometimes wifi with no internet. So in this way, you can easily increase our internet speed.
3. Use a Router having an antenna, if not then add an antenna to your router.
What if when we can't go closer to our router or it is placed in some other room. So using a router having an antenna is a good idea, it will increase the range of the router, so you can easily access high-speed internet without moving closer to our router. Some routers don't have an antenna, some do not support an antenna in this case you can connect another router via ethernet cable and place it where you want, it will better if you place it near you or your room.
4. Switch off background data uses of unnecessary applications.
When everything is good then also slow speed you can try this the most effective way to increase our internet speed. Due to the application using the internet in the background our internet speed becomes slow. Syncing and backup files are the main background data suckers, but some other apps also suck a good amount of internet. So to solve this follow the following steps given below.
- How to check applications using background data in smartphones.
- Open Settings on your smartphone.
- Search data usages.
- Then click data usages.
- Check apps data usages.
- Find apps using background data.
- Switch off the background data uses of unnecessary apps and the apps you want.
• How to check applications using background data in Windows Pc.
1. Right-click on the taskbar and open task manager from the list.
2. After opening the task manager click on more details.
3. See which app is taking the most bandwidth. If any program is taking too much bandwidth close it or pause it.
5. Regularly Restart your router.
Routers work 24/7 for a long period of time which affects the proper functioning. Sometimes due to improper functioning of the router, it makes our 100 Mb/s internet speed to 3 to 10 Mb/s. So if we restart or factory reset our router it will remove malfunctioning. Restarting the router at least once a week can increase internet speed as well as the lifespan of the router. We know that restarting our phone makes the programs run faster with no lags, it is the same thing with routers also. If our phone internet is slow then also we can try this, to increases our internet speed as well as our phone performance.
6. Use Ethernet cables.
Many people think Wifi is faster than Ethernet but the reality is ethernet is faster than Wifi. If your wifi is not working good, then you can try ethernet because it is the fastest and safest way of sharing the internet. Wifi gives slow speed because of many devices connected to it at the same time but this is not in the case of ethernet only one connection at a time. So plug in our ethernet cable and check the speed.
7. Shorten your Ethernet cable.
Make sure you are using a short ethernet cable and a working cable. If your cable is too long then it may affect your speed. I have experienced this same problem because I used a cable that was 3 times longer than what I am using right now. Long cable resists the internet speed and takes some extra time to flow through it, as same as resistance works. So use shorter and good quality cables.
8. Check your bandwidth hogs and error.
Check if your router has some error and fix it. It is very easy to check and find the errors of our router, it depends upon the setting of our router. Open our router user manual read how to detect errors in your router. For example, in my case, if there is something error in my router it starts blinking in blue color if there is no error it shows green color. Color and settings may vary in your case so must read the user manual provided with the router before taking any action. Mainly errors and hogs of the router can be fixed by factory reset or restart. Try resetting your router settings by the user manual if it works then good if not then it has some other type of error, so contact your internet service provider ask for help.
9. Upgrade your router firmware and network driver.
Device network driver and firmware provide power to your device and make sure they work as deliberate. Sadly, the firmware program of your internet is rarely optimized or error-free. Over many times service providers remove their bugs and improve the performance, so we must update your driver.
10. Check in which place of your house has the highest signal strength/internet speed.
Check-in which part of our house has the maximum signal strength. It can be checked on both Pc and smartphones. If we know which part of our house has the highest and strongest signal strength. After finding it we can move to that part of our house for good speed internet. To check it on pc we have to download some heat mapper and for smartphones, we can see by opening settings. Follow the steps given below, to check it on pc and smartphones.
- How to check signal strength.
- Download and install Heatmapper.
- Open Heatmapper and provide a floor map.
- You can choose a map already provided or make it by moving into the house.
- After opening the map analyze it.
- The green color shows the highest and strongest signal strength followed by yellow and red. Red shows the lowest signal strength.
- Move in the green part of the map for High-speed internet.
Website Cookies and cache can also affect the internet speed when loading the site, cookies take more time to load the settings. Caches are unwanted memory which saves the format of opening and closing programs and files, it also affects the speed of the internet. Mainly due to these website loads very slow, or loads partially. Removing cache and cookies turns the settings to default and hence our browser loads the sites quickly. To remove cache and cookies from our browser follow the steps given below.
1. Click on the 3 dots icon.
2. Then select more tools, Click on clear browsing data.
4. Choose the basic option. Choose "Cookies and other sites" and "cached image and files". Then click on clear data.
12. Use Antivirus/security application to scan viruses, malware, Junk files, and Wifi connection.
Viruses malware and unsafe wifi connection cause slow-speed internet. Because they use internet connection to steal and upload our data. They download unnecessary junk files which consume which slow our computer as well as the internet. unsafe wifi does the same thing that's why we must use antivirus when using the free wifi and scan bandwidth-consuming threats to protect our pc.
- Finally, check your internet speed. Is there any increase in internet speed?
#Bonus Fact: The fastest internet speed recorded in the entire world is 178 Terabits per second, which means 178,000 Gb per second and 2.225e+7 MB per second. NASA uses 91 Gbps internet speed to transfer data.