Increase the speed of your internet connection without a new modem

  As more and more people get quick connections to the internet, such as cable or ADSL, it becomes apparent to the user of a simple dial-up modem that the World Wide Web can quickly turn into the World Wide Wait. Here a trick that can help speed up your current modem without shelling out the big bucks.
   
There is a setting located in your windows registry called the Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU). This determines the size of the packets of data sent between your and your server. In Windows 95, this setting is has a value of 1,500 bytes when the actual size of internet packets is 1,000 bytes. This can sometimes slow things down. To remedy the situation, simply follow these steps:
In the registry editor (Start > Run > regedit.exe), navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\NetTrans.

In the NetTrans folder you should find another folder named "000x" in which x represents a fourth digit. Right-click on the "000x" folder and select New and StringValue. Rename the item that appears in the panel on the right side to MaxMTU, then double-click it to bring up the Edit String box and give it a velue of 1002.
 

Remember to keep playing with the MaxMTU value until you feel that your internet connection has greatly sped up. Some people report huge speed gains using this tricks, while others hardly notice a difference. In any case, it's definetly worth a try.

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Increase Your Internet Speed Up To 20%

By default our operation system doesn’t provide full bandwidth usage.  It reserves 20% of the available bandwidth for windows updates and for the interrogation of PC. This limitation can be disabled by using group policy editor…
To disable this limitation follow the steps given below:

• Go to “start menu” and type this  “gpedit.msc”  in run
• This will open up a window “Local Group policy Editor”
• In left panel go to “Local computer policy”
• Then go to “Administrative Templates” under “Computer Configuration”
• In right panel go to “Network” folder and open it
• Now double click on “QOS Packet Scheduler” to open it
• Here you’ll see file with name “Limit Reservable Bandwidth” double click on it
• A window will open with options like. Not Configured, Enable , and Disable
• By default “not configured” option is selected, but see detail it says “the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default.”
• To remove it select “Enable” option under “not configured” option
• When you enable it, another option of “Bandwidth Limit” will enable and its value is 20%
• Change this vale to 0% and press ok
• Close “Local Group policy Editor” and your internet speed will increase up to 20%

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