Question: My internet is so slow...how can I speed it up? - Sandra
Answer: Not all internet connectivity problems are created equal, and
there are different causes of poor connectivity. Here's what to do:
1. Check your internet service provider's status The poor connection
might not be your fault! Just like we experience occasional power cuts,
your internet service provider (ISP) will suffer occasional outages too.
You can usually check this by using another device that does have
internet (say, your phone using 4G) to check their service status page,
and find out if there are any problems locally. If that's the case,
there isn't much you can do other than wait.
2. Try a restart The oldest and most clichéd tech advice remains true:
it's always worth restarting your equipment to see if that fixes it.
Sometimes software will crash, and hitting the reboot button will air
out the bugs.
3. Check what other apps and devices are using the network Internet
bandwidth is a finite resource. If someone sharing your connection is
downloading a big file, or streaming in ultra high-definition, that's a
lot of gigabytes to pipe into your home.
4. Check the position of your wifi router Though we can often connect to
wifi networks from a long way away, it doesn't mean that the quality of
the connection is always good. Data is sent back and forth over wifi in
"packets" and the further away you are from your wifi router, the fewer
packets will reach their destination.
5. Consider new hardware It could be worth throwing some money at the
problem. For example, most ISP-provided routers (like your BT HomeHub)
will do the job, but are not always the best tech available. If you have
a larger home, it may be worth upgrading, for example, to a "mesh"
network – this is where instead of having one wifi hotspot, you place
additional intermediary hotspots around your home to ping the signal
back to base, and your devices will connect to whichever is closest.
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