Do you know Windows Vista and xp reserves some bandwidth for its own usage, do you know while you are browsing some hidden programs consume your internet bandwidth making your internet slow and sluggish. It really becomes a nightmare for a internet user when he sees that the file he is downloading will take hours to complete, we always wish we had faster internet connection but due to losses in the internet line and minor settings in our operating system we are unable to get the full internet speed. Here are some tips and tricks for windows Vista users which will help them increase internet speed by atleast 20%.
How to increase internet speed tip 1
Do you know by default IPv6 is also installed in Windows Vista, but most of the devices still utilize the IPv4 protocol – and to assume that most home networks are fully upgraded to the IPv6 protocol is a faulty approach to setting defaults.
the very first thing you should do before we can even get started speeding up the Internet, is to disable IPv6 so that you can at least get on the Internet in the first place. Here’s how it works.
First, go to Start -> Network -> Network and Sharing Center, and then click on “Manage Network Connections.”
In this screen, you will see a wireless connection stating that it can’t connect to any network. Right-click on that icon and select “Properties.”
You will see that both IPv6 and IPv4 enabled. Go ahead and uncheck the box for IPv6 and click “OK.” You then have to reboot your computer, but afterwards if the protocol incompatibility was your problem (and it very likely was), you’ll find that your computer can now communicate fine with the router.
How to increase internet speed tip 2
Another unnecessary default setting that Vista (and actually XP as well) comes with is a 20% “reserve” of your available bandwidth in order to accommodate certain applications like Windows Update. This tweak is a pretty common one most old-school users of XP already know – it’s not at all detrimental and you can immediately gain 20% of your bandwidth back, increasing Internet performance significantly.
This is called the QoS Reserve Bandwidth Limit, and to reduce this on any version of Vista you need to edit the registry.
Go to Start and type “regedit“. You may have to deal with the UAC, unless you’ve read Sharninder’s advice on how to speed up your Vista by turning it off! In Regedit, navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindows”
Right-click on Windows and create a new key name the key “Psched“.
Then right click on the right handside of panel and create a new “DWORD” entry. Name it “NonBestEffortLimit” and set the value to zero to disable reserve bandwidth.
How to increase internet speed tip 3
At times it is the browser which needs to be tweaked in order to increase the internet speed, if you are using firefox try these steps
Run your Firefox. Type in “about:config” into the address bar and press Enter. Scroll down the page and look for “network.http.pipelining“, “network.http.proxy.pipelining” and “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests“. You can also use the filter bar to search for these three entries.
Double click “network.http.pipelining” and “network.http.proxy.pipelining”. The “False” value will automatically change to “True” Value.
Finally, just select any of the browsers and do a right-click. Select “New” followed by “Integer”. There is a small pop-up box which requires you to enter the preference name. Just type in “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0? in a subsequent pop-up box. This signifies to the browser to act immediately on the information it receives without waiting for any lapse of time.
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How to increase internet speed tip 4 Use Web Accelerator
Web Accelerators are mainly web proxies with server side compression that creates a tunneling between our system and the web server to increase and optimize the surfing speed. You can find a list of free Web Accelerator here.