Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Speed up your computer and your Internet connection Speed

I'm certain you've approached many stories and alike suggestions from some of your acquaintance's on how to get your computer to move in a speedier fashion. Many seem to accord you recommendations, but your still in a grind and your fed up! Calm yourself, take a deep breath and let me provide you with some easy pointers. It's really not that hard to speed up your Internet and make it faster. I will accomplish this with some simple pointers for you and you do not have to be a computer nerd to accomplish this to work.

The number one thing to remember is to never download a program without reading the terms and conditions. Free software programs will usually ask you to download a toolbar so they can justify giving away a program for free. This means your browser will be taken over by a toolbar that will make your browser speed alot slower. Sometimes you will be bombarded with spyware and the like and things will get progressively worse. So make sure to uncheck any additional software that the publisher would like for you to download.

So if your like many and your computer is just not working as fast as it did when you first purchased it then you need to get rid off the spyware and all the critters that are lurking on your computer. Clean up your internet cache, make sure you run windows disk defragmenter and complete a virus scan every week or so to make sure that there are no computer viruses that are causing the problem. I also highly recommend only starting programs that are necessary to run and that you need when you first start your computer. This will speed up your computer because lass programs load on startup. There is a good article on how to achieve this here.

So now that I gave you some brief pointers on fixing your computer and Internet speed problems, let me give you the best advice you can get and what I do personally.

Depending on your browser; Firefox, Internet explorer or Google Chrome this is how I've eliminated most of my problems.

I use Mozilla Firefox, so if you use another browser the steps are pretty much the same.

1- Open up Firefox and go to tools and then options.

2- Next go to privacy and you will see on top Firefox will:

3- Choose never remember history, this will basically delete all files, cookies and browsing history when you close Firefox. If you want to have your browser to remember history or maybe cookies you can choose use custom history and apply setting that you feel are beneficial to your surfing habits.

In conclusion if you follow some of these basic steps you will have a fast computer with more speed and your DSL or high speed connection will also seem faster!


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Monday, August 03, 2009

Increase Internet Speed With New Broadband Service In California

DSLONE.NET is providing Internet comparison and price quotes in California. You dont have to be in California to compare providers, but I wanted to list the counties in Cali for you to generate a real-time quote. So go to your location below or for the rest who live in a different state go to http://www.dslone.net/coverage.php.

If you have had enough of your broadband connection being slow or your sick of your high-speed Internet provider then it's time for a change!

San Benito County Lake County Mariposa County Butte County Imperial County Tuolumne County Napa County Contra Costa County San Joaquin County San Francisco County Yuba County Mono County Amador County Calaveras County Sierra County Del Norte County Siskiyou County Santa Cruz County Sutter County Glenn County Nevada County Humboldt County Sonoma County Solano County Fresno County Sacramento County Los Angeles County Santa Clara County El Dorado County Stanislaus County Riverside County Trinity County Tulare County Colusa County Marin County Lassen County San Bernardino County Inyo County Alpine County San Mateo County Plumas County Madera County Orange County San Diego County Yolo County Shasta County Modoc County Kings County Placer County Mendocino County Santa Barbara County San Luis Obispo County Kern County Tehama County Alameda County Ventura County Monterey County Merced County


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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

DSL Speed Test: Why Is Theirs Faster?

Bits readers have a serious case of broadband envy. I’ve been writing about the debate about how the government might encourage more high-speed Internet use and you’ve complained loudly that people in other countries have faster, cheaper, more widely available broadband service. Even customer service representatives of Internet service providers overseas are nicer too.

I don’t know about manners, but it’s easy to find examples that American’s broadband is second-rate:

In Japan, broadband service running at 150 megabits per second (Mbps) costs $60 a month. The fastest service available now in the United States is 50 Mbps at a price of $90 to $150 a month.

In London, $9 a month buys 8 Mbps service. In New York, broadband starts at $20 per month, for 1 Mbps.

In Iceland, 83 percent of the households are connected to broadband. In the United States, the adoption rate is 59 percent.

There’s more than just envy at stake here. President Obama campaigned on a promise of fast broadband service for all. On the White House Web site, he writes “America should lead the world in broadband penetration and Internet access.” And the recent stimulus bill requires the Federal Communications Commission to create a national broadband plan in order to make high-speed Internet service both more available and more affordable.

I’ve spent the last week trolling through reports and talking to people who study broadband deployment around the world to see what explains the faster and cheaper service in many countries. We’ll start with where the United States isn’t doing quite so badly: the basic speed of broadband service.

If you take out the countries that have made significant investment in fiber optic networks — Japan, Korea and Sweden — the United States is in the middle of the pack when it comes to network speed.

The large European countries have average download speeds ranging from 3.2 Mbps in Italy to 6.4 Mbps in Germany, according to a study by the Saïd Business School at Oxford. The United States has an average speed of 5.2 Mbps. The study looked at speeds in May 2008, as measured by consumers checking their connections on a Web site called Speedtest.net.

Japan was the standout, with an average speed of 16.7 Mbps. Sweden was 8.8 Mbps. And Korea averaged 7.2 Mbps.

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