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Ways to Deal with Slow Internet Connection

Author: Pravin Patel
by Pravin Patel
Posted: Mar 29, 2015

Slow Internet can be nightmare for you when you spend whole night to find out your favorite youtube videos and these streamed videos turn into bad slideshow because of only one reason, internet is slow. No matter how much you’re paying to your ISP for good high speed internet connection, there could be some bad things in your computer which bring down your computers communication to the WWW.

Whenever you notice that internet explorer running slow or slow internet browsing, you must check out following slow internet fixes to bring up slow internet speed.

Stop it: Spyware, viruses, and other fake programs.

Spyware, viruses and other program that seek help of internet can bring down your internet speed. Your computer must be virus free because health of your computer can bring up or bring down your internet speed. You should use top antivirus like Kaspersky or Avast which have good ratio to capture viruses with inbuilt best internet security modules to stay away from active internet threats and Malwarebyte to remove spyware from computer like deltaforce.

Update it: Various Software’s like browser, antivirus and hardware.

You must update your software’s for better user experience and upgrade your computer hardware for performance.

Upgrading your internet browser can be important factor to tackle slow internet browsing. Internet Explorer is decent browser to surf web but it uses lots of resources and add-on which can slow down your internet speed and you must control it by removing any unwanted add-on.

You can also switch to Mozilla Firefox which has many add-on to improve internet speed like Adblock Plus which blocks elements such as flash, advertisements. Another best browser includes Google Chrome, everyone using it or Opera which is specially design for slow internet.

Clean up: DNS Entries and Temporary Internet Files.

Wrong or expired DNS entries is one of the factors for slow internet speeds in Windows 8 and other versions of windows operating systems that should be removed regularly as per below.

Click Start -> Run -> type CMD or Command Prompt in Run -> type ipconfig /flushdns in cmd -> Press Enter

Along with removing expired DNS entries you should also remove temporary internet files regularly as per below.

Click Start -> Run -> type %TEMP% in Run -> Press Enter -> select all files and delete it

You can also use well known tool CCleaner by Piriform to cleanup your computer which have inbuilt useful tools to optimize computer performance.

Please Note: You must be logged as computer administrator to use above method.

Get the help: Google DNS or Open DNS

The DNS protocol is an important part of the web's infrastructure, serving as the Internet's phone book: every time you visit a website, your computer performs a DNS lookup. Complex pages often require multiple DNS lookups before they start loading, so your computer may be performing hundreds of lookups a day.

You can give a try to Google DNS or Open DNS to reduce webpage load time. Make entry of below mentioned DNS addresses in network adapter to know which one works great for you.

Google DNS: Primary- 8.8.8.8, Secondary- 8.8.4.4

Open DNS: Primary- 208.67.222.222, Secondary- 208.67.220.220

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I Pravin Patel, Owner of Couponsnip which provide latest Coupons & Deals like Lenskart Coupons & More

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  • vijaykrishna  -  8 years ago

    Hey Very efficiently written information. It will be beneficial to anybody who utilizes it, including me. Keep up the good work. For sure i will check out more posts. This site seems to get a good amount of visitors. Happy Diwali Wishes

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