How To Increase Your Internet Speed?

Having looked at why your Internet is slow or problematic, we are now able to offer some suggestions on how to fix your slow or troublesome Internet connection, stop those annoying ADSL dropouts and increase your Internet speed. These are your options:

Test your Internet speed first

★ Before doing anything, find out exactly what your Internet speed is

★ Visit the SpeedTest website and run a speed test. You should test your Internet speed 3 or 4 times during a 24 hour period and run the test twice each time. This will give you very good information about your Internet speed and also tell you if it is fluctuating up and down at different times of the day.

See what your Internet speed should be

★ Visit the ADSL2Exchanges website and enter your street address. This site will tell you the approximate distance to your local ADSL Exchange and the speed you should expect to have at that distance

★ You can contact Aussie Cabling to do an ADSL cable test at your home and identify if you have a problem

Upgrade your phone cable & outlets

★ Upgrading your phone cable and outlets is very affordable and will achieve very good results for your ADSL connection.

★ By doing this you ensure that all existing connections are re-terminated and you can also make sure that the phone cable is properly shielded from any electricity cables or other hazards causing interference issues or your ADSL dropout problems

Install an ADSL central filter

★ An ADSL Central Filter removes the ADSL signal from your phone line completely as it passes through your ceiling, allowing all the in-line filters to be removed and bypasses the alarm system and all the joins in the phone line which are bottlenecks and entry points for interference

★ One of your existing phone outlets will then become a dedicated ADSL outlet which you plug your ADSL modem directly into without using the in-line filter

Install an Network Termination Device

★ A Network Termination Device is the Rolls Royce of devices to help increase your internet speed

★ It provides the same functionality as an ADSL Central Filter with the additional features of being installed on an exterior wall, providing a test point to test your service at the network boundary and removing more of the poorer quality lead-in cable from the ADSL connection.