Boost internet speed...

[Akshay]

Recently I have cum across following tweaks for improving net performance
But b4 making changes to my sys., I wud want expert guidance from thinkdigit and whether I shud make these changes to my sys.?

Internet Explorer important settings

Open Internet Explorer and select Tools - Internet Options - under the General tab in the Temporary Internet files section select the Settings button.

Select "Every visit to the page" and set the amount of disk space to use: to no more than 80MB. Now select the Connections tab and select LAN Settings make sure EVERYTHING there is unchecked and select OK.

Select the Privacy tab and choose Advanced check the box "Override automatic cookie handling" and for First-party Cookies - Accept, Third-party Cookies - Block and check "Always allow session cookies. Now NO MORE SPYWARE COOKIES.

Open Internet Options and under temp internet files - settings select – every visit to page.

If you have a dial up connection I HIGHLY recommend using a download manager, it will help maximize your download speed, resume downloads if you are disconnected and you can even schedule downloads for the middle of the night (it will automatically dial up and download the desired file and hang up when done) when you aren't using your pc.

Other important tweaks to improve your connection:Open your control panel and select the phone and modem properties icon – select the modems tab, under the modems tab highlight your modem and select properties

• General tab:
Set your speaker volume to your preference Maximum port speed – 115,200

• Advanced tab:

• Extra Settings – this is where you put in initialization strings, they can help stabilize your connection.
at&fx

• Advanced port settings – check “use FIFO buffers” then slide both bars to the far right. • Change default preferences: Port Speed - 115,200 Data Protocol - Standard EC Compression - enabled Flow Control – hardware

• Advanced:
Data bits – 8 Parity – None Stop Bits - 1 Modulation – Standard
Now select the Network and Dialup Connections and right click on your ISP’s icon and select properties.

• General tab:
Highlight your modem and select “configure”, set the maximum speed to 921,600 and under “hardware features” all the boxes are checked.

• Networking tab:
Uninstall all the protocols you don’t need. If this is a stand alone pc then all you need is Internet Protocol TCP/IP.
Select the settings button and make sure all the boxes are checked.
Setting your COM port speed properly:
Right click on My Computer and select properties – hardware – device manager – select your COM port – port settings tab – bits per second 128000 (you may need to set this a few times to make it stick).
Other important registry tweaks:

• Speeding up network browsing.
Open regedit and navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace
Delete the key: {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

• Faster webpage tweak by giving priority to DNS lookup.
Copy and paste the following and make it a .reg file and merge it into your regstry:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControl Set\Services\Tcpip\ServiceProvider]
"DnsPriority"=dword:00000001 "HostsPriority"=dword:00000001 "LocalPriority"=dword:00000001 "NetbtPriority"=dword:00000001

• Forward buffer memory tweak, this controls how much RAM TCP/IP uses for storing packet data in the router packet queue.
Copy and paste the following and make it a .reg file and merge it into your regstry:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControl Set\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]
"ForwardBufferMemory"=dword:00024a00 "NumForwardPackets"=dword:0000024a "MaxForwardBufferMemory"=dword:00024 a00 "MaxNumForwardPackets"=dword:0000024 a

• By default Windows 2K & XP cache everything in the DNS cache service, both correct and faulty DNS lookups. To increase performance by eliminating the caching of faulty DNS lookups, copy and paste the following and make it a .reg file and merge it into your regstry:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControl Set\Services\Dnscache\Parameters]
"NegativeCacheTime"=dword:00000000 "NetFailureCacheTime"=dword:00000000 "NegativeSOACacheTime"=dword:0000000 0


For WinME Win95 and Win98:

1. Click on start button2. Go to Search3. Open Dial Up Networking3. Right click on your connection4. Go to Properties where the modem is located (Telling you what modem are you using).5. Click Configure6. Click on Connection7. Locate the Advanced button and click it8. Look for Extra Settings9. Type at&fx10. Click apply11. Close12. Re-start/disconnect your Internet connection
Your connection speed will boost 5 times more... from 45,200Bps to 115,200Bps

For WinXP WinCE and Win2000:
1. Right click on "My Computer"2. Go to "Properties"3. Go to "Hardware" 4. Go to "Device Manager" 5. Go to "Modems"6. Click the tab to scroll down7. Go to your modem and right click on it8. Go to "Properties"9. Go to "Advanced"10. In the box saying "Extra Settings/Extra Initialization Commands" type at&fx11. Click OK (2 x) then exit everything..12. Re-start/disconnect your Internet connection a faster speed
Your connection will boost from 42,200KBPS to 100,200KBPS—

Another trick:
Increase the speed of your modem connections:1. Click start.2. Click control panel.3. Click modems.4. Click properties.5. Click the connection tab.6. Click advanced.7. In the extra settings dialog box add the string S11=40.8. Click Ok.
Not all connections will boost up 100% since it depends on your Internet Service Provider (ISP)…

PS: These tweaks were posted by someone else and are not mine... I have just copy pasted...

[Kniwor]

personally i have never noticed an improvement....

but, if u are getting speeds lower than what you should be getting, u can try...

but if u have a 256kbps and u are already getting 30KBps.... u cant increase it unless u use compression techniques.....

[Akshay]

What compression techniques are u talking abt? How can it b done? is it thru s/w. or some h/w. tweaking

[Kniwor]

the data is compressed and transferred to ur pc, but the softwares are not freewares, and it's not that simple as a tweak,

furthermore it does not help with video,jpg,music files... do downloads will not be affected... only browsing webpages can be more responsive...

i have never tried it myself... but i am surere prople here will be able to help u... i dont know if it's worth the hassle and money

[Mohnishgs]

You can just use some softwares to boost your internet speed like system mechanic,download accelerator etc

[ashisharya]

use internet optimizer to speed up ur net speed

[phatratt]

onspeed helps compressing images and animated objects to speed up the connection with some compromise with quality.But,this service is a paid one

[Akshay]

But what abt the registry & other tweaks mentioned above? Do they work? Coz sometime back even DIGIT carried an article which spoke abt registry tweaks to increase internet speed. This involved disabling some windows appli./processes which consume some bandwidth without us even knowing abt it...