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Increase your internet Speed 20%

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    Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc

You can get it back:

Click Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes. This opens the group policy editor.

Then go to:
--> Local Computer Policy
--> Computer Configuration
--> Administrative Templates

--> Network

--> QOS Packet Scheduler

--> Limit Reservable Bandwidth.

Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth.

 It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab i.e." By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."
So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.

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How To Make Your Firefox Fast

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This Firefox tricks will improve the speed & load time of firefox. And you will be able to surf faster.


Type about:config in the address bar, Then look for the following entries, and make the corresponding changes. 
network.http.max-connections-per-server =32
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy =16
network.http.max-connections = 64
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 10
network.http.pipelining = true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 200
network.http.request.max-start-delay = 0
network.http.proxy.pipelining = true
network.http.proxy.version = 1.0

Lastly right-click anywhere and select New- Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. Enjoy!!

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How To Increase Download Speed In Torrent

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The use of Bit Torrent is an efficient way to transfer files of just about any size quickly and efficiently. How this works is by breaking the huge files into smaller pieces and is from one or many of the different sources. This is one of the best ways to transfer bulky files quickly even when you are using a low bandwidth connection. There are many more things that you can do with Bit Torrent, but here we are going to discuss how to make this work much faster. 



Here are some essential tips for the same,


  1. Start with your ISP:

All ISP has a preset maximum upload and download speed, and you cannot make your torrent work beyond this speed. All you can do is to use the best use of this upload and download speed even when the signal is weak. You can check the maximum speed that you can achieve by conducting a broadband speed test and compare with the DSLReports that comes with your uTorrent.

  1. Opt-In for healthy seeds and peers:

A peer is any computer participating  in downloading and uploading of torrent files along with that of yours. A seeder is one who has a complete copy of the file that is being shared across a torrent network. A leecher is the person who has joined the network recently and do not have most of the file that you or the peer has. This leecher becomes the seeder when they download the entire file and is able to share it across the network.  For getting high torrent speed, you need to increase the number of seeders to increase the chance of healthier and reception of higher speeds.

  1. Get through the firewall:

Many times, you will find the administrator or the firewall in your web browser is set to block and receive torrent files. The first thing that you need to do is to get appropriate permissions for downloading torrent files, and add this to your firewall, which will enhance the speed at which you can download torrent files. If the internet is through a router, then you have to set the torrent file to cross the barrier of the security of the router also.

  1. Go to a different port:


The default port for BitTorrent protocol is always between the numbers 6881-6999. This is because BitTorrent sharing will involve high bandwidth usage. However, this is possible that you can configure a different port for your torrent client and this has been best advised to set this number to somewhere around 10000
Go to Preference,select Connections change Port

  1. Limit your upload rate:


A peer to peer network is sharing alike on the same or similar platform and therefore you should be able to set your client’s upload speed rate to a maximum amount, which will usually be about 80 percent of your maximum upload speed that is being offered by your ISP. Keep this speed, as high as possible, but you have to play your cards well as the upload speed affects your download speed as well.

  1. Use your common sense:

If you understand the concept of how Bit Torrent works, then your common sense will automatically tell you that this is possible to view the individual files being downloaded and disable the ones that you are not in need off, which will  help you to speed up the process of downloading the files using Bit Torrent.

  1. Bandwidth and connections:

This is possible to set the maximum number of connections, maximum number of peers connected per torrent and number of slots per torrent so that you can decide on which numbers gives the maximum efficiency from your Bit Torrent files.

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How to improve Internet browsing speed and reliability

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The Internet, rather like many of the world's large and wonderful cities, is a wonderful place to spend time in -- unless you're stuck in traffic. Luckily, there are a few things you can do to stop your browsing experience becoming slower than a hedgehog wading through treacle.
To start off, it helps to understand just what slows you down in the first place. There is a misconception that your Internet connection needs oodles of megabits per second (Mbps) to browse websites quickly. It doesn't -- despite modern websites being more complex than ever, with Flash, HTML5 and other plug-ins generally increasing site loading times, a downstream connection speed of 1-2Mbps is sufficient for smooth, quick browsing.
More important is the quality and stability of your connection. It's possible for your router to lose connection to your ISP (known as packet loss) many times in a minute without you even noticing. You don't see the disconnection because the router reconnects in time to prevent a 'page not found' error -- a 404. It just takes much longer to load the page.
This guide will start off showing you how to run a quick stability check, before looking at finding the quickest DNS servers with a program called namebench.

Checking the stability of your connection

Connecting your computer to your router via an Ethernet cable will rule out any inconsistencies you may face being on a wireless connection.
Windows
1. Click on Start and type 'CMD' (without the apostrophes) into the search bar. Click on the CMD icon in the programs list. Type in the black box 'ping –t google.co.uk' and hit enter. This will run a continuous ping to Google and back. Any latency (shown next to time=) averaging less than 30ms is generally regarded as a quality connection. When looking for a stable connection, we want to see something like this, with no time outs between the pings.
CMD ping
2. This is what you don't want to see. 'Request timed out' means something is interrupting the communication between your router and Google -- it could be disconnections on your line. If you get this, give your ISP's technical helpdesk a call and ask them to check the line for disconnections -- they could be slowing down your Internet speed considerably.
request timed out
Mac OS X
1. Go into Applications > Utilities > Network Utility. Click on Ping and type google.co.uk under 'Enter the network address to ping'. Keep the radio button on 'Send an unlimited number of pings' and click Ping. This is an example of a stable connection:
Good ping Mac
2. Again, this is an example of possible disconnections. If you get this on your Mac it would be worth calling your ISP's technical help desk to check it out.
Bad ping Mac

Using namebench to find your fastest DNS server

When you go on the Internet, by default, your computer will use a set of Domain Name Server (DNS) records to connect to the Internet. Sometimes they're the fastest ones available, but often they aren't. We're going to use the free program namebench to search for the quickest DNS records available -- click here for Windows and here for the Mac version.
1. Run namebench and make sure everything is set to the ones shown in the picture below, bar the Query Data Source option -- you can switch that to the browser of your choice. Click Start Benchmark. The benchmark needs to run an initial check before searching for servers, so it's normal for the process to take at least a couple of minutes.
namebench
2. When the benchmark finishes, you'll be presented with a results screen in your browser. If it tells you that you already have the fastest DNS servers, you can either try running the benchmark again (just to make sure) or change the browser -- one DNS isn't necessarily the fastest for all browsers. If the benchmark reports that it's found a faster set of DNS servers you should see something like the following picture. Make a note of the Primary and Secondary servers.
Faster set of DNS servers

Changing your DNS servers on Windows

1. If you're using Windows, click on Start, type Network into the search box and click on Network at the top of the window under Programs. Click Network and Sharing Center. Click Change adapter settings on the left-hand side. If you access the Internet by plugging an Ethernet cable from your router into your computer, right click on Local Area Connection and left click on Properties. If you're on a wireless connection, right click on the Wireless Network Connection icon and left click Properties.
Wireless Network Connection Properties
2. Click on Internet Protocol Version 4 and click on Properties.
Internet Protocol Version 4
3. In the lower half of the screen, put the radio button into Use the following DNS server addresses. Enter the figures that you noted down earlier from the namebench benchmark (not necessarily the ones in the picture below). Click OK. Give your browser a test drive -- you should notice the difference immediately, although this will vary in accordance to how much 'faster' the benchmark DNS servers were.
DNS server addresses

Changing your DNS servers on a Mac

1. Click on the Apple logo on your Mac's menu bar and click on System Preferences. Click Network. Click on the network adaptor that your computer connects to the Internet with in the left hand menu and then click Advanced in the bottom right hand corner.
Mac network
2. Click on DNS, click on one of the numbers under DNS Servers on the left hand side of the window and then click on the minus symbol to the left of 'Ipv4 or Ipv6 addresses'. That will get rid of the DNS server -- repeat the action to get rid of the other one. Click on the plus symbol next to the minus one and enter the Primary DNS number that you noted down earlier. Click on the plus symbol again and enter the Secondary DNS number that you also noted down earlier. Click OK.
Mac network new DNS
3. Give your browser a test drive and see if you can notice the difference.

Which browser is the quickest?

A few years ago, we gave a few browsers a test drive and found Google's Chrome browser to be the quickest. If you Google 'What is the quickest browser?' the general consensus on the Internet is that Chrome is still generally the best for speed overall.
It's not always the case though -- legitreviews.com conducted several tests with a range of browsers back in May, and found different browsers rendered different aspects of the web quicker than others. If you're not keen on Chrome, most of them are free, so see what the other browsers have to offer. Safari, naturally, looks great on a Mac. Firefox has a huge range of plug-ins and a neat sidebar for bookmarks and Opera ranks among the best-looking browsers for Windows.

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