It was fast enough to watch HD video from sources such as Netflix and Amazon Prime and support the frequent Web access required for my wife's Web-development business and my site for tracking the latest crowdfunded gadgets. A few days ago, though, our internet access started getting flaky, slowing down or going out completely for hours at a time, leaving us to lean on a cellular hotspot.
Calls to customer support on two consecutive days revealed that there was indeed an outage in the area, not wholly surprising given the terrible weather gripping the region. However, the service gaps persisted even after the company said the outages were resolved. After taking some info about my cable modem, the service representative suggested I upgrade it, as the company had started rolling out a faster version of internet access about six months ago that the current modem couldn't manage well.
I never ascertained why the problems were surfacing only now. In any case, I went to my local cable company's office the following morning and picked up a new box by ARRIS that was much larger than the RCA-branded Sicilian pizza slice that had served as our internet gateway. Ten minutes and one signature after showing up when the office opened, I was out of there. After reattaching the cables and running a few speed tests, the numbers impressed me. While my old downloads only sometimes approached their theoretical speed of 20 Mbps, I was now regularly getting speeds in excess of Mbps--all for the same price, and all without switching providers.
I have been listening from a few of my friends and colleagues that their internet speed is a bit slower after they installed Windows 10 on their PC. At first glance, you will think about how it is possible that upgrading to the latest version of OS can cause slow internet. But, this can be possible because of multiple reasons. The main reasons are heavy bandwidth uses of the OS, and many background services are running in the background.
Below are the tips and tricks I am going to share for increasing the internet speed on your Windows 10 computer, but I would recommend you to use any internet speed checker websites to record the speed before and after applying the tricks so that you may come to know how much impact is there.
But, the good news is you can override this by enabling the Limit Reservable Bandwidth and setting that to 0. However, Gpedit. So, if gpedit. Once gpedit. Now, the reservable bandwidth is free for general use. It boosts the internet speed to a good extent. In Windows 10 there are many apps keep on running in the background, and they share your internet bandwidth as well.
That slows down your internet connection to a bit. So, the solution is to turn off those background apps and save the bandwidth to get a faster internet connection. To do this, go to Setting. This may or may not increase your internet speed because it all depends on the DNS server you are using. If you are using the DNS server which location is quite near to your location, changing it may not help but if your DNS server is situated far away from your location, changing to Google Public DNS would help because it is one of the fastest public DNS which has servers around the world that keep responding to the requests.
I am not writing the full guide about changing the DNS on your PC because I have already written a blog post about it which you can read by clicking here. For this, you have to go to Services which you can type in the taskbar search and click it. Find Windows Update from the list. This will stop this service. In the Startup type , select Disabled , and click OK. Also, you should know how to change the bandwidth limit in Windows 10 because limiting the bandwidth We did talk a bit about bandwidth earlier in this post , you decide how much bandwidth you want to keep for downloading and uploading update data from Microsoft servers as well as for other updates on your PC.
Because at times, most of your internet bandwidth goes in downloading various updates on your PC, and you face a slow connection. So, limiting the bandwidth would be helpful. For this, you have to follow this:. This is how to change the bandwidth limit in Windows This works for all the versions of Windows. Delete the contents that show when you hit enter for both.
Windows 10 comes with OneNote app which may or may not be useful for you. If it is useful for you, skip this point. For uninstallation, type Onenote in the search box of the Taskbar. This will appear there under best match. Now, right click on it and click Uninstall. The PC keeps a list of the sites and their IP addresses which we open frequently. Data becomes obsolete after a long period few months. So, we can flush the DNS resolver cache to flush out those obsolete data. This can make your connection slow for a while because your PC needs to DNS lookup for every new site.
But, very soon you will experience a faster internet connection than what you were experiencing before DNS flushing.
To do this, go to Run , type in cmd , and hit enter. Command Prompt will open. This will flush the DNS, and you will soon experience faster internet connection. You will see a lot of texts there. I know these three methods that can help increase internet connection using CMD.
But, there would be many more such tricks. Please share in the comments if you know any other tricks. These are a few ways to increase internet speed on Windows Moreover, there are a few more things you can do such as:. Switch off and on your Wifi Router: Sometimes, just switching off the router, and after seconds, restarting again helps you increase the speed to a bit. There in the left pane, click Change adapter settings. There you will see the Network Connections.
See the one that is connected. Right-click on that and click Disable. Then again, right-click on that and then click Enable. We always talk about how to improve download speed Windows 10 but we hardly talk about boosting the upload speed.
Upload speed is equally important for those who usually upload a lot. Here are few quick tricks that help boost upload speed on Windows And, you are still facing a slow connection, then you can try these tips and tricks mentioned above to boost internet speed on Windows Share your thoughts and views in the comments.
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