Speed Up Your Internet Connection

A slow Internet connection costs time and gets on your nerves. For this reason, taking the time to optimize the settings is almost considered a must – particularly since an optimization in terms of speed doesn’t come with any additional cost, neither for a hardware extension nor for the software, but some utilities can tweak and optimize internet settings for you.

Here are some utilities that can fine tune your Internet settings that are hard to find in windows registry. Hope you'll find these helpful in optimizing your Internet speed.

Ashampoo Internet Accelerator 3
Ashampoo Internet Accelerator analyzes your computer and optimizes all the relevant settings with a single click. You don’t need to know anything, just select the automatic optimizer and you’re done. It also includes an Internet connection speed test tool so you can test your performance directly. In addition to automatic optimization advanced users can still access all the individual settings and adjust them manually to speed up internet.

SpeedConnect
SpeedConnect Internet Accelerator is a powerful Windows application designed to optimize your network connection and speed up all your internet activities. This translates into a faster internet connection, faster browsing and email, faster downloads, faster online gaming, improved Skype connection. The comes with both paid and free versions. To download the free version click the link given at top right of the official site.

Internet Accelerator
Internet Accelerator improves various configuration settings that directly affect your network and Internet connection speed. It offers limited number of features but for beginners these setting are enough to see a speeding internet connection.

TCP Optimizer (Free)
The TCP Optimizer is a free, easy Windows program that provides an intuitive interface for tuning and optimizing your Internet connection. There is no installation required, just download and run. The program can aid both the novice and the advanced user in tweaking related TCP/IP parameters in the Windows Registry, making it easy to tune your system to the type of Internet connection used.

BeFaster
BeFaster is a connection optimization tool. It helps you to speed up your internet. In addition to main feature, it wakes suspended connections and prevents connection drops. Through its unique ‘Super-Ping’ tool, it prevents connection drops so you can enjoy seemless browsing and downloading.

EXTRA

Here is a cool trick to increase your download speed, don't miss it!

Trick: Speed Up Internet 20% Faster by Disabling Reserved Bandwidth

In all versions of Microsoft Windows, they reserve 20% of your total available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc.

But you can remove the hold and can get that reserve area back to enjoy full bandwidth and speed of your Internet connection. However this is not recommended to disable this feature but users with slow Internet connection who never use Windows Updates feature can disable the reserve bandwidth easily.

This works on all version of Microsoft Windows:

• Click Start then Run and type “gpedit.msc” without quotes. This opens the Local group policy editor.

• From left navigation pane, go to:

Local Computer Policy –> Computer Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> Network –> QOS Packet Scheduler –> Limit Reservable Bandwidth.

• From the right window page, double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth.

• It will say it is not configured, but the truth is the Packet Scheduler still reserves the 20% of the total bandwidth. But you can use this setting to override the default.

• So the trick is to Limit Reservable bandwidth. As soon as you set it to Enable, you’ll notice the bandwidth is already set to 20 by default, just set it to zero (0) and apply the settings.