What usually caused Slow Internet Load Times and WHY?
We live in an Internet-centric world – after all, most of what we do is related to the Internet. Businesses create strategies to become more relevant online; we do our shopping, or travel plans and our networking online. And these are just a couple of examples of what happens thanks to the online world.
On the other hand, we have become more and more dependent of high-speed Internet connections. It’s not like dial-up cuts it for any of us anymore – we want to stream TV shows or even movies or listen to online radio.
A second interesting fact is that we become more and more accustomed to using wireless products – tablets, phones and laptops for our online endeavors. To learn about wireless internet, visit – it might help shed more light on how wireless products work and how we get connected so easily.
Nevertheless, wireless Internet has its perks – for example, people might experience slow internet load times and unfortunately, with wireless internet, it’s not an easy thing to deal with.
1.) Understanding Bandwidth
First of all, the entire internet traffic that can get to your device in a certain amount of time is called bandwidth.
Now, in theory, there are two types of bandwidth – that destined for uploading data (for example, sending web page requests or actually uploading stuff) and downloading data (the return for those requests, like your Facebook page appearing in front of you, or streaming a lovely video).
The issue is, in wireless internet, there’s only one type of connection that can occur at one time – it’s either upload or download. This means that if upload is slow, download will seem even slower and it will take forever before you load everything you want to see.
2.) Understanding Wireless Technologies
If you haven’t visited the web page about wireless yet – here’s an interesting fact – wireless technologies will never be as fast as wired technologies. For the time being, wireless internet speed remain at half or even less compared to wired speed. But that shouldn’t be that big of an issue – provided you don’t share that connection with other devices.
Think about it – in coffeshops and Internet cafes one ends up sharing that same internet connection with everyone out there. The same bandwidth split for more than one device means that apart from the fact that wireless is slow from the beginning, it’s even slower when more people connect to that wireless access point.
3.) Speeding Up Load Times
Now, this might not be an easy task to achieve – but there are a series of applications and browser extensions that might help with this particular issue. Applications that help optimize a Wi-Fi connections have shown beautiful results on both Macs and PCs.
Sadly, there are far less options for smaller portable devices such as a smartphone or a tablet. On the other hand, there are changes that can be done within the network infrastructure to improve the quality of the signal, thus speeding up load times for everyone that has connected to that particular network.
I always ignored this kind of stuff, but now I think that I need to upgrade my internet connection. Time to call the Internet provider.
Better thought Utkarsh.
I’ve always found internet speed to be directly proportional to the amount of money spent on your internet plan and a router and modem.
Nice word….this means, what you sow into your internet services, that exactly is what you will reap. Am I right?
Most people connect to their modems wirelessly.. Be it ADSL2+ or Cable broadband. The slow speed is caused by Internet wireless congestion. The best way to test is by connecting using an Ethernet cable. The speed obtained when connected via Ethernet cable is lot more than with wifi..
One needs to make sure that the Wifi Channel does not interfere with other wireless devices.. Usually the higher channels work better … Example channels ranging from 11-13
Thanks for the artcle Olawale Daniel.. Hope to see you at bleepingtech as well
Anish, your comment is highly received!
Thanks for contributing to the post.
About the wired technologies, how much speed difference would be there using coaxial cable or fiber optics cable?
This is really good published article. Such a great yet interesting post. Thank you very much for sharing this useful stuff.
Great advice, thanks!
You’re welcome Graham.
Thank you for the useful post, im fed up with my slow connection!
Hope this post helps in one or two ways to help you resolve the issue?
Hi Daniel.Thanks for the informative post on internet slowness.Interesting to know this and love to read more.
Hello
Sometimes I feel so irritated when the internet hangs up and takes time to load. I keep erasing the history. I also use the CCleaner and yes that helps.
Sanjib
I have Ccleaner before but uninstalled it, but now, I will re-add it to my office PC 🙂
Awesome!
My internet connection is good but thanks for telling us with these tips surely will came use in future.
Welcome bro 🙂 😀