10 top tips for optimizing DSL

Is your DSL connection much slower than promised? This may be due to your equipment and settings. COMPUTER ART gives you tips on how to increase your broadband speed for free.

The DSL speed

The DSL speed depends on where you live: For the data rate and quality of the cable length, number of users at a crucial junction box. In rural areas, but also in large cities these problems are now on more often. In addition, some streets as many DSL lines are connected such that the lines are overloaded. The suppliers often act according to the motto: "Better a few customers over DSL a guaranteed maximum for all ".

The main reasons for slow Internet connection
You know that: you have booked a fast DSL connection, but the pace can be desired! These problems are not uncommon. Two reasons come to the dilemma being:

The supplier's problem: Fewer DSL as promised
Some vendors are promising in terms of the maximum speed of a sports car supply, but there is only the power of a small car. They offer such as DSL at 16,000, but only guarantee a speed of 7,000 kilobits per second (kbit / s). In the small print says it is not without reason "up to 16,000 kbit / s".

The home-Problem: Incorrect hardware, and incorrect settings
Not always carry the DSL provider to blame for the mess. Even with error-free Internet connections can cause lame broadband. The possible causes are then to you - in the home audio equipment. Incorrectly configured network cards, old router, wrong WLAN equipment and poor reception conditions that interfere with the wireless radio network, are typical DSL brake pads. Quick Help: By repositioning of wireless router, PC or notebook, you often achieve better performance. Faulty network cards set optimizes the TCP Optimizer tool.

Connect your DSL optimally

In many apartments or houses, there are several conventional TAE-in sockets. The following extended TAE-second doses can lead to loss of speed.

Tip 1
Connect the first DSL device, so the splitter, as with the first TAE telephone socket in the apartment or house.

Does your router ADSL2?

DSL support for 16000 and VDSL hardware is necessary to ADSL2 or VDSL technology. Point your connection to the new technology, you are charged usually a current or a fresh modem router. Older DSL equipment does not necessarily support ADSL2 or VDSL.

Tip 2
Check with the manufacturer of the router if it supports your connection.

Share your wireless devices optimally

Various barriers affect the optimal distribution of the Wi-Fi radiation in homes and buildings. The worst Wi-blockers are steel and highly water-containing components such as water pipes, floor heating and wood. The wireless speed can greatly reduce this part. Result: The connection speed is in the basement.

Tip 3
Ask your DSL router to. It often helps if you put it not on the floor or table, but the cupboard or just move a few meters to one side. Who wants wireless transmitted over several floors, the Wi-Fi antennas in the router level. This increases the wireless range of floors. What always helps: put together computer and wireless router closer. Prima alternative: power line network adapters, you can get your Internet access in every room that has an outlet.

Start the DSL-only test of a device

If you have a router to the Internet, you have the advantage of being able to surf with multiple computers on the Internet. The internet is divided on this network, but on the respective devices. Therefore, fall-speed Internet results from the lower, the more computers are integrated in the network and load the internet connection!

Tip 4
Run the DSL speed test, if only one computer on the network logged into the router

Configure your network card with TCP Optimizer

The network card in the desktop PC or laptop must be set optimally. In general, it is also. If not, is one of the TCP Optimizer the ideal values ​​for your DSL connection.

Tip 5
Use the TCP Optimizer tool to make your network or wireless card to optimally configure the DSL connection.

Check your connection is not via WLAN

Wi-Fi connection and none of the tips provides a significant success? In many cases, the interference in the radio network are too large to reap the maximum speed of the DSL line.

Tip 6
Disable the wireless network and connect desktop or notebook via cable to the DSL modem. Important: Switch off additional security programs such as a firewall in Windows, and use in several telephone boxes the first box of the home. To ensure that the device the maximum speed available.

DSL providers are not hasty change

Your DSL is snail-slow? The first reaction is then often go to the DSL provider immediately. Watch out: That's not always an improvement in your situation. Even competing provider you can often assure no quicker access. Reason: You use the same lines and the same network technology.

Tip 7
Check that your connection would generally provide greater momentum. How does it work, check out the article "The Truth about lame DSL. " Only when you are sure that your provider is not fully exploiting the transmission capacity, go to the competition.

Allocate a new Wi-Fi channel in the router

You use a wireless router? Then it may be that affect neighboring Wi-Fi wireless networks the performance of your wireless network, especially in a densely populated city.

Tip 8
Change the wireless radio channel. Often, routers are set to the same channels. Walking on which channels the devices of the neighborhood, you can check with the software NetStumbler. Select a channel that is far removed from most of the occupied channels.

New Wi-Fi router with a higher rate now

Your router is already a few years old? Then it may be that he the DSL speed of 16 megabits (Mbps) and no longer creates. Straight router, the data after the wireless b standard transfer work to slow.

Tip 9
Who has a b-standard router should switch to a g-or n standard router. Their data transfer is much higher. Alternative: Replace at least on the website of the manufacturer, the firmware of your current router. This brings some tempo increases.

Keep talking to your provider

If all the tips remain unanswered, the slow pace is probably not because you use wrong device or settings.

Tip 10
The last resort: the DSL provider. Not always he can help, but in some cases, such as the exact re-measuring the DSL line, it provides at least for reconnaissance.