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Tag Archives: network speed
Diagnosing your network and measuring speed.
Diagnosing your network? Here’s a GUI program to ping and get averages and speeds over a period of time – nine years ago we featured Performance Pinging by Carsten Schmidt and cannot find a working website from the author to … Continue reading
Posted in Computer hardware, computer troubleshooting, Computers, Free Software, freeware, Home Networking, Information Technology, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, network, Networking, Technology, troubleshooting, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows Server
Tagged freeware, network, network speed, network speed test, networking, troubleshooting
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Speed up your network by disabling the HomeGroup
While we’ve discussed speeding up SQL connections by disabling LLMNR, there’s another way to speed up your network. If you are not using the HomeGroup feature, a quick way to speed up your network is to disable the services for … Continue reading
Posted in Computer hardware, computer troubleshooting, Computers, help desk, Home Networking, Information Technology, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, network, Networking, Technology, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Wireless
Tagged Network Performance, network speed, networking
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Different ways to optimize your internet
Want an optimal connection to the internet? Speedguide has an excellent analyzer. Remember don’t just use a benchmark to analyzer your connection. It is good to look at all aspects of your connection. You can run their analyzer and … Continue reading
Test your network speed
Need a quick way to check your network speed? You can use TotuSoft’s Lan Speed Test. This small (124kb), excellent program allows you to transfer data packets from one computer to another across your network. TotuSoft offers advanced versions of … Continue reading
Slow Network?
Do you have a computer that responds slow on the network or hesitates? Follow these steps and you will see a significant difference. (Because we have not shown how to disable advanced settings in your network card, simply go to … Continue reading
Analyze your internet connection – then optimize it!
Want an optimal connection to the internet? Speedguide has an excellent analyzer. Remember don’t just use a benchmark to analyzer your connection. It is good to look at all aspects of your connection. You can run their analyzer and … Continue reading
Measure Your Hard Drive or Network Transfer Speed
DiskBench was designed to measure your hard drive speed but can be used to measure your network transfer speed realistically. With DiskBench, you can use this freeware utility to measure your hard drive speed in my opinion more in accurately … Continue reading
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Tagged 7, benchmarking, freeware, hard drive speed, microsoft windows, network speed, network speed test, Software, Windows
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Testing Your Network Speed
LAN Speed Test v2.0 is an excellent program to measure the speed of your network. Just because your network is 100 mbps or 1000 mbps (wired) or 54mbps (802.11g) or 300 -600 mbps (802.11n) wireless doesn’t mean you are transferring … Continue reading
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