Increase Internet Bandwidth In Windows Xp

[k_nitin_r 8]

I have the feeling that for most people, this "trick" will do no good. It seems like a lot of the tricks there were back in the dial-up days (sorry for those of you still in that time!) that never worked because you can't increase bandwidth if you're already capped.

With dial-up, there was no capping because you were limited by the speed of the connection so whatever you got was the limit of the technology and the only way to go faster is to wait for the next best thing in modem technology and upgrade to it. However, now we have communication medium capable of 3 Mbps (Internet over cellular networks) or 1000 Mbps (wired LAN) so all you need to do to get a speed upgrade is to get your Internet Service Provider to increase the cap.

However, there still is a lot that you can do in terms of data compression. You can use Opera's Turbo mode to route your traffic through Opera's servers which compress the data before sending it to you, essentially improving the speed of your connection from end-to-end without causing increased traffic along the connection that your modem has to your ISP.

[rpgsearcherz 5]

However, there still is a lot that you can do in terms of data compression. You can use Opera's Turbo mode to route your traffic through Opera's servers which compress the data before sending it to you, essentially improving the speed of your connection from end-to-end without causing increased traffic along the connection that your modem has to your ISP.

Never heard of that but I'll look into it. Wouldn't that increase ping though, thus making it less efficient? You'd need the data to go 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 2 -> 1 instead of just 1 -> 2 -> 1

[iGuest 3]

There are more technical factors that influence the bandwidth. First of all, the cable between you and the street cabinet can only handle a certain amount of bandwidth, the longer the cable, the less the bandwidth it can handle. There is no way to get more bandwidth out of a cable by using software tweaks. Another factor that influences the available bandwidth is the bandwidth between the ISP and the street cabinet. If everyone connected to the same street cabinet is downloading big files, then it might happen that the line between the street cabinet and the ISP becomes saturated. Since the bandwidth is shared, this means that everybody will receive less bandwidth.Of course, the other side is limiting speeds too, even if you have a high speed optic fiber connection, downloading will be slow if the server at the other side is connected to the internet using a 56k modem. Slow hops will of course limit speed too.Returning to the software tweaks, single- or multithreaded applications can only speed up downloads if the connection between you and 'a' server is limited. This is best explained with an example: let?s say we have 2 servers with a 100kbps uplink and you have a 100kbps downlink. Using download accelerators won't speed up anything. However, if you have a 200kpbs downlink, then you can speed up things by combining the uplinks from the two servers. I've already said this very often, but the only way to get faster internet is by upgrading your internet connection (get a faster connection, get fiber optics, combine ADSL with ISDN using load balancing.