How To Speed up Any Internet Connection In Windows PC

Last updated on April 24th, at 02:35 pm

We all know there are moments when we have critical work to do from home. In these situations, fast internet is even more important. Here are few tips to improve any internet connection speed on Windows PC.

How To Speed up Any Internet Connection In Windows PC

So here are two tips/methods to speed up any Internet connection in windows, irrespective of what type of data card you are using.

But remember these tips will not do magic to your internet connection but will definitely squeeze out that extra bandwidth to speed up your internet connection in windows.

First Method

On the desktop right-click on “My Computer” then Properties and then click on “Device Manager”.

Under the Device manager scroll down and select “Ports” > Communication port > double click to bring the port properties.

From the Port, properties window go to “port settings” menu on the top as shown in this image.

Here change the “Bits per second” to 128000, this you can do by clicking on the drop-down arrow and select it.

At the bottom change “Flow control” to Hardware. Then click OK to exit. You just finished the first step.

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Method 2: Disable the Windows QoS Reserved Bandwidth.

By default, windows reserve up to 20% of the network bandwidth for QoS traffic like windows update, VoIP applications, etc.

If these activities are going on in the background you get only 80% of the bandwidth. With this tip, you can change the percentage of reserved bandwidth to what you want it to be instead of or better still completely disable QoS reserve and get the full 100% bandwidth to speed up Internet connection in windows.

To Disable Windows QoS reserved bandwidth click on > Start button > type gpedit.msc on the search bar > double click on gpedit.msc to run it. On the left panel of the window

1. On the Local Group Policy Editor window
2. Click on Computer Configuration
3. Click on Administrative templates
4. From the menu double click on the QoS packet scheduler
5. On the right window panel Double click on “ Limit reservable bandwidth”
6. This will open a new window, here click on the “Enable” button, and under the options, menu changes the Bandwidth limit from 20% to 0% , then click on apply then OK.

That’s it. Apply these simple tricks to speed up Internet connection in windows. As I said, in the beginning, you can’t expect magical improvement. But I guarantee you will notice a definite speed in your Internet connection in windows.

Ben Jamir

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