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10 Basic Reasons Why Your High Speed Internet Connection Is Too Slow

Suneel — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:21:52 +0000

High speed internet connections are known as the best and fastest means of internet connectivity with unlimited speed and download size. There are certain reasons that can affect the speed of your high speed internet access, and some of them are:

The Time that You Access the Internet each day

The time when you are accessing the web can help you to understand if truly your high speed internet connection is slow or not because there are times when a lots of people are very busy on the internet and if you are using the internet connection at that same time, there is a greater certainty that your internet connection speed will be slower than how it used to work before.

Quality of the Computer System Used

If you used an old computer that is has been affected by virus, it will make your computer to work slowly and also will the internet connection becomes slower than what you can imagine.

Unreliable Modems

In most case, some of the internet browsing modems that are in the markets are limited to some certain speeds of data transmission and thereby limiting the speed of the Internet connectivity, without regard of the speed your high speed service can provide.

Amount of Users on Your Home Network

Most of the cable Internet services providers share the same bandwidth they provide you with satellite Internet connection and if the total number of subscribers that are using that connection is too much, the speed of your high speed internet connection will be slowed down and this will really affect your connection. In a case where you are provided with 10mbps speed of high speed internet connection from your ISP and you are sharing the connection with another person in your house or in the same neighborhood through wireless router, and the person is downloading at a speed of 5mbps, it means that you are sharing the connection at the rate 5mbps each and this can really slow down your work.

The Website You Are Visiting

When you visit some popular site on the internet that has higher percentage of website visitors (traffic) at the same time you are trying to access it, you can experience a slow internet connection at that point in time and this act can cause congestion on that website server because there are too many people that are querying the server and this will slow down the loading speed of the site.

The Distance from the Closer Telephone Service Exchange

You high speed internet connection speeds are usually affected most of the time by the location of the network service. The farther the distance from the cabinet office of the telephone company you are using, the more sluggish and slower your high speed Internet access will be.

Government Interference

Since the government of every country has power over all the people in the country, it is very easy for the government to determine the amount of broadband internet speed like what happened in some Asian countries recently.

Quality of Computer Hardware Used

If your modem and wireless router is too old or faulty, you have to change it to a new one so that you can enjoy your broadband internet connection speed

Personal Browser Settings

Some internet browsers are slower than others. Installing other apps on top of that will only slow a computer further. Things like cookies will also decrease surfing speed. It may be wise to download a new browser and strip away some of those unnecessary extra features.

Infection of Virus on Your Home Computer

If your computer system is not well updated, and your computer firewall is not well managed; your high speed internet connection can be affected by virus attack and this act can really affect the speed of your high speed internet connection.

This is a guest post by Techwriter who writes Broadband Expert about choosing a high speed internet service providers by zip code and picking the best DSL internet service for your needs.

Round Up For the Week Ending 11-06-2010

Suneel — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:46:25 +0000

This week’s awesome posts which were pondered and taken notes from are:

There were a few more interesting and knowledge filled posts this week which have captured my interest. But, I will post them the next week.

Round Up For the Week Ending 04-06-2010

Suneel — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:42:32 +0000

Last week, I have started a round up series which goes live every Friday. So, here I am again with some of the best links I had come across last week and what I am probing in deeply now.

Round Up For the Week Ending 28-05-2010

Suneel — Fri, 28 May 2010 08:15:16 +0000

From this week, I am going to share some interesting links which I came across or bookmarked or found innovative. This round up may contain informative posts, technology articles, technology mash ups and range across several other niches.

Lets go ahead:

These are a few links I came across this week and on which I spent quite a comfortable time reading and grabbing up the information.

I hope you like the links. Do watch out for the next set.

Momentus XT-Seagate's Fastest Hard drive with SATA 3Gb/s

Suneel — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:37:14 +0000

No matter whether it is the third time I have faced HDD crash and replacement, you can call me adamant or trusted follower, Seagate rules the hard disk manufacturing segment. Seagate has given a new face to their three year old concept of hybrid HDDs which were a total failure, because that kind of technology was unheard of until now.

Seagate has announced recently that they have started integrating flash memory to a normal hard drive, thus making a revolutionary new kind of technology totally unheard of.

Seagate launched the new 2.5 inch Momentus XT, which is acclaimed to be the most powerful, intelligent and ‘affordable’ which delivers SSD like performance without sacrificing storage capacity and affordability.

Seagate claims that this new kind of Solid state hard drive delivers 80% more performance than the traditional 7200 rpm hard drives.

I wish to check whether the claim by Seagate that this hard drive boots a laptop within seconds with the help of SSD, is as true as it sounds. Well, we are aware of the fine print that arrives with these kind of quotations, right?

No separate setup is required for these kind of new hard drives. So, no new peripherals are required to make use of this HDD. Just plug in to you laptop and boot with any OS you wish to.

The HDD comes with a 5 year limited warranty, which means that they will replace the HDD under certain conditions and your data has gone with the wind. So, always be on the edge to have a backup of your data.

Seagate Momentus XT comes in wide flavors of 500 GB, 320 GB and 250 GB. The interface is SATA 3Gb/s.

Bare metal prices for the drive are said to be around $50 more than the same spec of drive without the hybrid design, or $113 (250GB), $132 (320GB) and $156 (500GB). At that price, many users will be tempted. The drive can also be retro-fitted to older machines without the need for special drivers of modifications of the BOS.

Too pricey for me. Will wait for some more time What would you say?