Speeding Up Your Internet

First Step

Almost always the first step would be cleaning up the computer. If that is too much time I urge you to at least update the drivers on the computer.

Are you running on Wireless or Ethernet?

If you are running on ethernet click here so you can skip over all the wireless information.

Steps to Optimize wireless driver

This isn't a widely known trick that I learned when messing around with the computers in computer maintenance.

1. Get to Settings -> Network & Internet > Change adapter options

2. Right Click on adapter > Properties

   

3. Click Configure > Advanced Tab (Could ask for admin rights. Accept them)

4. You should then see a list of properties. You can research what each one does, I will only be focusing on which ones I believe do the most change.

5. Once done with the changes below, press OK, and the adapter will reset, and bam that is it.

The network is able to get more time/priority over other devices

How much power to search for WiFi. I keep it at 4, 5 if bad lag

[Advance] Status of the signal before searching for new AP

Have you messed with the configurations of the router?

Most people don't even know how to do this. The steps could differ for different companies but don't worry about that.

Step 1 - Find Router IP

The router ip or also referred to as the default gateway and can be obtained through the command ipconfig. Personally, my IP is 192.168.1.1.

Step 2 - Access Configuration Page

I enter that address (192.168.1.1) into the browser and it will pull up a login popup box at the top. If that doesn't happen it could be because of the router. I had to do to a different website.

Step 3 - Mess around

The best way to figure it out is by researching each component that you do not understand and messing around with it. You should be careful as most of the time applying the configurations will take the network/internet down for ~2 min.

Verify the network is not colliding

I downloaded the software from Acrylic Wifi website to check if my internet was good.

Signal Strength

Network collision

Above are photos of me running the software. The first one shows I have perfect strength, Netgear router, and Open WIFI The second one shows the network channels. The channel in green is me and that area has fewer collisions than both sides of me, 1 and 14, but it is not the best. 4 would be the best and that would mean changing it would speed up my connection.

Want more information?

I didn't get into all the details on why you should do what you do or the importance. I have included a few links on what else to look into if it is still slow (Which I doubt but is possible)

WiFi Channel Scanner: Choose the Best WiFi Channel With NetSpotFREE WiFi Site Survey Software for macOS & Windows