Optimising Your Speed

Optimising Your Speed
Essential Information
No matter what speed broadband you have, you can tweak
your computer settings to improve your connection. This
is really only necessary if you regularly get a slow speed
test result or want to squeeze the absolute maximum out
of your connection.
Tuning Software
A good tool to use is Dan Elwell’s Broadband Speed
Test which you can find at broadbandspeedtest.net. The
basic version is free to download. Or visit totalidea.com
for a copy of Tweak-XP which automatically optimises
those computers with Windows XP. Note that some
broadband providers frown upon using software to speed
up your connection, so they may refuse to help you if you
experience problems when tweaking your speed.
Web Accelerators
To improve your Internet browsing you could also consider
a web accelerator. This is software that downloads web
pages more efficiently by storing frequently used pages
on your computer. You can download SpeedOptimizer,
which is a good web accelerator, by visiting speedoptimizer.
com. Or try Google Web Accelerator which is designed for
broadband users. Download it at webaccelerator.google.
com. Accelerators make web surfing a bit quicker but won’t
speed up downloading files such as music or video.