Posts Tagged ‘slow internet connection’

postheadericon Computer Problems And Solutions

PC’s today get cluttered with more damaging data, junk, and extra files than ever. This results in poor computer performance, frequent system crashes, slow Internet connections and worse. Fortunately there are some great ways that you can fix these problems. First let me tell you about the most common reasons for computer problems and exactly what they are. This is so you will have an understanding of what it is that is giving your computer problems. Here are the three main reasons why people experience so many problems with there computer.

Spyware

Spyware is any technology that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge. On the Internet (where it is sometimes called a spybot or tracking software), spyware is programming that is put in someone’s computer to secretly gather information about the user and relay it to advertisers or other interested parties. Spyware can get in a computer as a software virus or as the result of installing a new program.

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postheadericon Slow Streaming Video Problems

Stop Slow Streaming Video

Slow streaming video can but a damper on your internet video viewing experience. If you are using service like youtube.com or Veoh.com. You are more than likely are streaming videos using a DSL connection. Most videos should load and play simultaneously using the streaming video technology. However, your PC may be inhibiting you from taking full advantage of this technology. This page will give you useful tips to troubleshoot your slow streaming video problems. However, lets begin with the basics to get you started. Special Note: By simply cleaning and organizing your computer registry you can free up tons of resources for video streaming and other high performance computer task. Click Here to Learn How!

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postheadericon Troubleshooting Slow Internet Connections

Let’s say you have subscribed to a fast broadband Internet connection at home and you are getting the expected download speeds that were initially promised by the ISP.

However, sometimes it may happen that the speed of the same Internet connection slows down and then even simple websites may take forever to load on your machine.

Troubleshooting your Slow Internet Connection

There can be several reasons why you may be getting slower-than-usual Internet connection speeds. For instance, you could be accessing the web during peak hours. Or your download manager could be downloading files in the background thus consuming all the bandwidth. Or, if you are accessing the Internet over Wi-Fi, maybe you’re too far off from the wireless router.

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postheadericon How to Fix Slow Internet Speed on Windows 7

Getting a slow Internet connection on Windows 7 is extremely annoying and frustrating. If your Internet is running slow on this system, then the good news is that you can speed it up pretty easily by fixing some very simple and common problems that often make it slow. Here’s what you need to do…

The first thing you need to do is to Close Any Programs Other Than Your Web Browser – Many people tend to “multi task” on Windows, opening many different programs at once. Although this is great for productivity, it actually slows down your Internet connection by effectively “splitting” it between your programs. This means that if your Internet was a pie, your browser would only be getting a small part of it – making it seem really slow. In order to speed it up, you need to make sure your browser gets the whole share of your connection, which is done by closing any of the other programs that you might have open in Windows; especially all the Internet messengers and email programs.

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  • chong: Alongside slimming the startup list, also run a diskcleanup. After that a full defrag will help speedup...
  • Eric Hollis: I have no doubt that breaking the symmetry of treating all icons (desktop or not) as windows would...
  • Nancey Haag: After that my machine performed MUCH better. I know this shouldn’t make a difference, but it was...
  • Jacob Bowles: “Well MacOSXHints has it wrong. Sorry guys, what is slowing down your machines is the size of the...
  • Daryl House: To do this set up a cron script to automatically delete it every night at around 2 am.