Comments on: 5 Easy Ways To Speed Up Your Internet Connection http://www.pcmech.com/article/5-easy-ways-to-speed-up-your-internet-connection/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cedrick Egohttp://www.pcmech.com/article/5-easy-ways-to-speed-up-your-internet-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-40897 Cedrick Ego Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:22:10 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/5-easy-ways-to-speed-up-your-internet-connection/#comment-40897 Do you accept guest blogposts? I like the technique how you wrote 5 Easy Ways To Speed Up Your Internet Connection | PCMech, I am in this topic for ages and I would adore to write several articles here in the event you agree with me. Do you accept guest blogposts? I like the technique how you wrote 5 Easy Ways To Speed Up Your Internet Connection | PCMech, I am in this topic for ages and I would adore to write several articles here in the event you agree with me.

]]> By: Rich Mengahttp://www.pcmech.com/article/5-easy-ways-to-speed-up-your-internet-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-23622 Rich Menga Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:14:14 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/5-easy-ways-to-speed-up-your-internet-connection/#comment-23622 The router is never the problem, it's on a software level (the OS) where the choke happens. Windows XP in particular has a predefined setting for maximum concurrent connections that was introduced in SP1 and can only be changed via changing tcpip.sys:http://www.trustyfiles.com/help-sw-xpsp2.php The router is never the problem, it’s on a software level (the OS) where the choke happens. Windows XP in particular has a predefined setting for maximum concurrent connections that was introduced in SP1 and can only be changed via changing tcpip.sys:

http://www.trustyfiles.com/help-sw-xpsp2.php

]]> By: Michael J. Cohenhttp://www.pcmech.com/article/5-easy-ways-to-speed-up-your-internet-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-23605 Michael J. Cohen Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:08:49 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/5-easy-ways-to-speed-up-your-internet-connection/#comment-23605 If 60-90 open connections (not half-open) makes your internet connection "stall", then you do have a serious problem with your router. the WRT54G can handle 4000+ concurrent connections before it runs out of memory, and that's a WAY old router. any directly connected service should be fine for this unless it is excessively high latency.That said, google earth is a good idea if you have RAM to spare, its cache is a lot more effective. If 60-90 open connections (not half-open) makes your internet connection “stall”, then you do have a serious problem with your router. the WRT54G can handle 4000+ concurrent connections before it runs out of memory, and that’s a WAY old router. any directly connected service should be fine for this unless it is excessively high latency.

That said, google earth is a good idea if you have RAM to spare, its cache is a lot more effective.

]]> By: MartYnhttp://www.pcmech.com/article/5-easy-ways-to-speed-up-your-internet-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-23515 MartYn Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:09:11 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/5-easy-ways-to-speed-up-your-internet-connection/#comment-23515 People in the uk should buy one of these if they have one of the old style BT phone sockets. http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopDetail.asp?ProductID=7256 I bought one and it increased my downloading speed by just under a third. Well worth a tenner. People in the uk should buy one of these if they have one of the old style BT phone sockets. http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopDetail.asp?ProductID=7256 I bought one and it increased my downloading speed by just under a third. Well worth a tenner.

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