LANcom Technology Blog

Microsoft has a great article on their website detailing what you can do when you’re working on a slow internet connection. Here are a few of their suggestions.

1. If you are going to send multiple files by email, then compress them first. This speeds things up. You can do this using Winzip or another compression tool.

2. If you want to speed up your internet browsing, you could turn off your graphics in Internet Explorer. This means that your WebPages will load much faster but will appear without any pictures, animations, or videos. To do this in Internet Explorer:

1. Click on Tools
2. Click Internet Options and go to the Advanced tab
3. Now scroll down till you see the Multimedia section and clear the ticks from these boxes:
• Play animations in Web pages
• Play sounds in Web pages
• Play videos in Web pages
• Show pictures
4. Now click Apply

3. If you often reference a particular page why not save it so you can view it offline, this means you won’t have to wait for it to load each time. For instructions on how to do this click here.

4. If you don’t want to turn off your graphics in Internet Explorer another option would be to increase the size of your Temporary Internet Files cache. This increases the amount of images from the internet your computer stores, which means when you go to open a page you have opened in the past it will load much faster because images will already have been downloaded. This however does mean that you are using up more space on your computer. To do this in Internet Explorer:

1. Click on Tools
2. Click on Internet Options
3. On the General tab go to the Browsing history section (This may also be called the Temporary Internet Files section) and click Settings.
4. Under Check for newer versions of stored pages, Make sure Automatically is selected.
5. Now you can increase the amount of disk space to be used. Make sure this number is at least 250MB
6. Click OK
   

To see the full Microsoft article click here