SPEED UP YOUR INTERNET BROWSING

Even if you’re spending top dollar for high-speed Internet service, you may not be receiving the performance you expect. Make sure that you have the latest mo­­dem your ISP offers. You can often get the company to send a newer one just by making a quick phone call, though some ISPs will ask you to renew your service contract for another year before doing so.

For optimizing network performance in XP or Vista, we like TotalIdea Software’s Tweak-XP Pro Premium and TweakVI Premium. Both apps do the job without re­­quiring Registry editing or accessing hidden Windows settings. Both packages include dozens of tweaks in addition to network and browser adjustments. Network Mag­ic Pro) also optimizes.

System-level optimization is less im­­portant in Vista than in XP, since Vista tunes your TCP stack dynamically (TCP is a data-exchange protocol). Vista users can frequently get away with optimizing just specific applications, especially their Web browsers. To speed up Fire­fox page displays, try Firetune or Fasterfox. Both utilities are free and easy. Fasterfox adds a few more customization options for expert users. Both tweak low-level settings such as cache memory capacity, max­imum simultaneous connections, and “pipe­­lining” (handling multiple data requests simultaneously).

Frequent downloaders can save time with a download manager such as Download Accelerator Plus, which manages the entire download process, creates multiple simultaneous download links, and then puts the file together afterward. Just click a download; the program does the rest. It integrates well with Internet Explorer and Firefox.

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