Speeding Up Your Computer

How to Speed Up Your Computer, The Easy Way

There are many different ways to speed up your computer, depending on how you want it to be sped up, in this guide I will show you two ways you can speed up your computer easily.

Speeding up Internet

The first thing that could cause your internet to be slow or not working at all is that your computer is not situated close enough to your router or if your router is in a closet or basement where it is hard to pick up a signal. The obvious way to fix this is to move your router into the place where you use your internet most. But that also might not be the problem, sometimes routers can overheat causing them to provide poor internet service, if this is the case for you it may be worth it to invest in a router that has a better ventilation system or put the router in a place where it'll stay cool.

I sped up my internet speed by connecting my computer to a local DNS server in other words, a computer registered to join the Domain Name System which gives your computer an identity,
i.e. an "IP"
Connecting to a local DNS or a DNS with a strong server connection can boost your internet speed greatly and there are many tutorials on how to do this.

Click Here for a Tutorial on How to Change Your DNS

To check your internet's average uploading and downloading speed, click here

To Speed up Your Computer In General

There are many ways you can speed up your computer.

If your computer is running horrendously slow, chances are, it has a virus. Nowadays you can get antivirus software for virtually free such as spybot (click here). Viruses can damage your computer and cause it to run slower which can be frustrating.

Overloading your computer with files or using all of its RAM (Random Access Memory) can severely hinder your computer's performance to fix this you can delete unnecessary files or backup some files to an SD card or a different computer. Also, close open applications when you don't need them and if that doesn't work, you can try looking at the programmes that hog your RAM and either delete them or close them, there is a tutorial on how to do this on this website (click here).

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-Josh