How to Optimize Windows PC To Get Faster Internet Speed

Today let’s talk about some interesting tweaks that will ensure faster internet speed on your PC. Normally, people blame the slow internet connectivity when their download stalls or websites won’t load. Little do they know that there are certain aspects that they can control and improve the network speed. Of course, you may not get the best possible maximum speed. However, you can always optimize your PC and its task to achieve better speed.

In this guide, I have mentioned some simple methods that you can use to get faster internet speed on your PC. I have talked about Windows PC in this guide. You can manage your torrent files, manage bandwidth usage of your applications. This will help optimize the internet speed on your PC. Also, you can tweak the DNS server and try to access web portals through a DNS server other than the ISP’s. Let’s discuss all this in detail.

How to Get Faster Internet Speed on your Windows PC

Manage Your Torrent Files

If you are using Torrent applications to download torrent files, then make sure that you do not download a bunch of files at once. This will slow down the overall internet use on your PC. Carry out the downloads one file at a time. Also, you can set the particular torrent file to consume less bandwidth.

Most importantly, take care not to seed any torrent file after you download it. Unless you are someone who manages a torrent creation portal, then do not seed any torrent. If you have internet service with up to 1 to 2 Mbps capacity of data transmission, then you should not seed any file. It’s like you are wasting your internet for someone else. People do not understand this concept and waste of a lot of data, suffer from slow connectivity and other issues that accompany a slow internet speed.

Try using Alternate DNS Server

Normal DNS request to change the human-readable website to computer-readable IP address goes through the ISP’s DNS server. However, you can change it to go through an alternate DNS server. This is how you can do it.

Type Control Panel on Type Here to Search box.
As Control Panel Opens, on the top right corner, there is View by section. Change it to Large icons.
From the icons select Network and Sharing Center
As your latest WiFi connection shows up, click on it Beside Connections
From the small network status window, click on Properties
You will see a series of checkboxes. Double click on the one that says Internet Protocol Version 4
from the next window, select Use the Following DNS Server Addresses
The set the Preferred DNS Server as 8.8.8.8 and Alternate DNS Server as 8.8.4.4
To finish the setup click OK.

Don’t Use the Programs that are Utilizing a Lot of Data

This means if you are not using multiple apps at one time, then check and close those apps that are consuming a lot of internet data.

Press Ctrl +Shift+Esc to open task manager
Then click the Network to see the PC automatically showing the data-intensive apps on the top of the list.
Depending upon how much data an app is using, or whether you are using the app at that moment, you can let it run or close it to make the internet bandwidth available for other applications.

Try to Limit the Bandwidth Usage of the Apps

Sometimes there are apps that tun in the background and consume a lot of internet data. Mostly these are the cloud storage apps such as Dropbox. You can view how much data is being consumed by the application.

On the system tray, click on Dropbox icon
Next, click on the profile picture > select Preferences from the menu
Next click on Bandwidth
Now, as you can see, you can manually limit the amount of data Dropbox can use for downloading or uploading any content. Simply select Limit To radio button to enable the manual tweak.

On Windows 10, you can share the update you download for your PC with the other PCs connected to the network. Though it’s a great feature, remember that other devices will be getting the update at the cost of your internet data. So, can you limit it or disable it..? Yes, you can.

Go to Settings > Update & Security
On the left-hand panel, click on Delivery Optimization
Click on the toggle to disable the option Allow Downloads from other PCs

Note

As you can see in the screenshot, there is an option Advanced Options. Click on it to manually decide how much bandwidth you wish to allocate for downloading the official Windows OS software updates. Or if you wish to share updates then also you can limit the bandwidth so that your own internet usage is not affected.

Manage Other Devices in the Network to Have Consistent Faster Internet Speed

I always believe that the internet should be used productively for something useful. It may happen that on your home network, 3 devices (PC/smartphone anything) are connected to your main network. If the internet speed is slow, this means, some device on the network may be downloading something intensively. Otherwise, there may be a batch of downloads happening simultaneously on all the devices.

We can also say the same about torrents. If 2 PCs are downloading torrent files from a single network, then obviously, the internet speed will decrease substantially. So, depending upon what is important, you should manage the downloads or download/browse what is important. Later you can carry out other downloads. The point is if you download and browse a lot of dynamic webpages one at a time from multiple devices, it will affect the internet speed. So, wisely line up your internet usage of devices over the home/office network.

Stream in Lower Resolution Instead of 4K to Get Faster Internet Speed

If you watch YouTube, OTT platforms like Netflix or Amazon prime, then try to stream at 720p instead of 4K. see, if you are entirely okay with spending that much amount of data through viewing in 4K, then go for it. Otherwise, if you are keen on saving data, then choose to view it at a lesser resolution.

I do have a good internet connection that caters up to 2 Mbps of speed but I choose to stream at 480p for preserving data for my official work. Yes, occasionally, depending upon what the content is, I tend to stream at 720p or 4K. Try this one out if you are looking for saving loads of data on your network.

So, that’s all about getting faster internet speed on your Windows PC by optimizing these things that I have mentioned in the guide above. I hope that you found this guide informative.

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