How to Increase Your computer Broadband Speed

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Having a computer is a very important aspect of life
in today’s world. Almost everybody has a
computer, so many people attend school without
them having to leave their homes and a lot of
people even make money online from the comfort
of their homes just by sitting in front of their computers. The funny thing however is that a
computer can’t do everything on its own. In fact,
with today’s technology having only a computer is
not enough. You also need to have a robust
internet connection. It once started with people using dial up – there are
now millions of broadband internet users all over
the world with several of them complaining about
not getting the desired speed. The question now is
if it is the ISP that is responsible for the slow internet
speed or what? While in most cases there are problems with the ISP, you can also make some
basic changes to your computer to enjoy faster
broadband internet access.
Below are some major ways to tweak your
computer to get faster internet access. 1) Remove Unused Icons from Desktop
The first step to take to make your computer faster
so that you can get better broadband speeds is to
get rid of the icons you have no need for from your
desktop. A lot of people have over 100 icons on
their desktop while in reality they only use less than 20 of them. The sad truth is that the remaining
unused 80 icons are contributing a great deal to
slow down their computer and removing them can
significantly boost the computer speed of the user
thus leading to faster broadband internet. That is
why you will notice that new computers tend to be faster than computers that have been used for
years. 2)Uninstall Applications You Don’t Need
Once you’ve removed the icons you really don’t
need from your desktop the next step you have to
take is to review your computer and have an idea
of all the applications you have installed. Now ask
yourself how often you use these applications and which ones you haven’t used in the past 2 months
– if you take a look at it you will notice that you
rarely use over 50% of the applications installed on
your computer and uninstalling them will do a
great deal to make your computer faster. Once you’ve uninstalled the applications you don’t
use often you should restart your computer to see
how everything works. You will notice the speed
will be different and better than the one your
computer is having before you removed those
applications. 3)Install the Latest Antivirus, and Do a Thorough
Scan of Your Computer
The above two steps are great enough to help you
speed up your computer significantly while
ensuring you enjoy better internet speeds but
taking care of your computer once and for all isn’t enough. You have to ensure that you keep on
enjoying the great speed you have just achieved
and that is what I will be explaining at this point.
Make sure you install the best and latest antivirus
you can lay your hands on and do a thorough scan
of your computer for virus infections. Viruses can be really dangerous and in most cases they slow
down computers so ensuring your computer isn’t
infected will make a huge impact on how fast your
internet connection is.