Thread: Speed up internet connection?

Does anybody know of any ways to speed up internet connection? Do those download enhancers powerboosters, whatever actually work?

So far I haven't found any app that would actually do what it was advertised to do. How do you expect to gain more from your service provider than he is allowing you to use? These boosters are a waist of time.

Your internet is only as fast as you ISP allows. If you find that you internet is slower than you should be getting, ring up your ISP and they will fix it.
There are some great threads in the tutorial section that could speed up the internet and system all together.
Seedbox's are very popular. Using servers on different connections can boost your ratios drastically fi thats the reason for you wanting a faster connection

Hope this helps
Sam

What do you mean, speed up internet connection?

• Are you on dialup?
• Are your torrents downloading slowly?
• Is your BT client hogging all the bandwidth?

There's a finite amount of bandwidth even on a broadband connection. Most boosters work by downloading a webpage (for example) in multiple chunks. But the speed boost comes from the other side of the connection, not yours. Basically, they work by making the webpage send from its server faster. In other words, unless you're on dialup, you don't really need it.

If your torrents are downloading slowly, try looking for a speed guide, there's tons of them here and on the internets. If you find that you can't visit webpages while seeding, your BT client is probably hogging all the bandwidth. Check your settings in that client and lower your upload speeds.

Anyone please correct if I'm wrong.

Originally Posted by AfterMidnight

What do you mean, speed up internet connection?

• Are you on dialup?
• Are your torrents downloading slowly?
• Is your BT client hogging all the bandwidth?

There's a finite amount of bandwidth even on a broadband connection. Most boosters work by downloading a webpage (for example) in multiple chunks. But the speed boost comes from the other side of the connection, not yours. Basically, they work by making the webpage send from its server faster. In other words, unless you're on dialup, you don't really need it.

If your torrents are downloading slowly, try looking for a speed guide, there's tons of them here and on the internets. If you find that you can't visit webpages while seeding, your BT client is probably hogging all the bandwidth. Check your settings in that client and lower your upload speeds.

Anyone please correct if I'm wrong.

yes u are correct, the speed boosters are really a gimmick for broadband users. Your speed is limited by ur isp, as well as the distance between you and ur telephone exhange! if u are very concerned about ur speed, u could call up ur isp and have them run a line test to make sure everything is ok.

failing that, u could try changing routers as i have discovered that my 2 year old dg834g v3 netgear router is ~200kps slower than my brand new router my new isp sent me to use with my adsl2+ 20Mbit connection...

playing with the mtu value can help sometimes but it can also make things worse so you gotta try

There are tutorials in the tutorial section that may help
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If you search a little further theres probably more

Hope this helps
Sam

Tried quite a few of those mention apps none work for me.

They don't work. Web browsing accelerators fake it by crawling every link it sees on a page, so while your reading the front page it is grabbing all data for the pages you could potentially click. It wastes a lot of traffic (especially if your quota limited). And any systems that say they work by using compression are lying as well. Unless the other end is using the same program to decompress and compress everything it sends to you you are getting no benefit.

Compression systems are useful when you control both ends of the link, like a dedicated line between your branch offices, you stick two same brand routers at both ends and enable compression both know how to deal with the incoming packets.

In the torrent world data is already highly compressed (XviD's, RAR's etc) that compression can actually add to the traffic required to move the packet.

I think the best example of a widespread method of speeding up the internet is the mod_gzip extension in Apache/other web servers. All browsers have the built in libraries required to decompress the info received since people tend not to optimize their code/images the compression can help.

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