How to speed up the Internet in Windows 7, 8 ,10

Is it possible to speed up the Internet at all? Easily! Below is a simple set of measures that allows you to significantly increase the speed of the Internet in Windows.

Potential for acceleration 

For example, if you have 10 Mbps in a contract with a provider, in reality you will get a download speed somewhere at the level of 1 megabyte per second, or even lower. The fact is that Windows has a QoS service that can reserve up to 20% of its speed for its tasks. And the browser is waiting for a response from DNS-servers. And in the running cases, the browser can be turned off hardware acceleration of page rendering. And then web-surfing turns into anguish. Therefore, if you disable QoS, enable DNS query caching, and enable hardware acceleration in the browser, the speed of the Internet can grow at times.

The easiest way to speed up the Internet in Windows 

The easiest and safest way to disable QoS and add 20% to speed is to edit the security policy. You do not need to go into the registry and risk the performance of the entire computer, just remove one tick in the convenient settings editor.

So, click "Start" → "Run" and enter the name: gpedit.msc. The Security Policy Editor opens. We successively go on the following route: "Computer Configuration" → "Administrative Templates" → "Network" → " QoS Packet Scheduler ". Enable "Limit redundant bandwidth," but specify 0% as a reserve. Done.

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Increase DNS cache for network acceleration 

The role of the DNS cache is to store the IP addresses of all Internet sites that you visit most often. If you have a tendency to very often visit certain Internet resources (for example social networks VK, Facebook, Twiter, various blogs or multimedia resources of YouTube, StumbleUpon), then the increase in the DNS cache of your browser should be positive for download speed of these Internet pages. To increase the size of the cache, you must perform the following actions:

Click on the "Start" button, type in the search word "regedit" and press the Enter key. You need to start the Registry Editor. Then in the editor you need to go the following way:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ DNScache \ Parameters

Next, right-click the mouse to add the following four DWORDs:

CacheHashTableBucketSize
CacheHashTableSize
MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit
MaxSOACacheEntryTtlLimit

And assign them the following values:

CacheHashTableBucketSize - set the value to 1
CacheHashTableSize - set the value to 384
MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit - set the value to 64000
MaxSOACacheEntryTtlLimit - set the value to 301

Next, you must restart the computer for the changes to take effect.

Speed ​​up the Internet by disabling QoS 

As it became known, in XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8 and 10 there is a system for reserving the width of the Internet channel. This system (QoS Reserved Bandwidth Limit) specifically limits your traffic to allow normal operation and the transmission of traffic to higher priority applications, such as Update Center or other priority components. The width of the reserved channel is about 20% of the maximum speed of your Internet. That is, with this restriction, you really only use 80% of the speed that the provider provides to you. Therefore, changing this percentage can significantly accelerate the work of your browser and downloading the Internet pages. In order to reduce the width of the reserved channel in Windows 7, you must perform the following actions:

As in the previous case, click on the "Start" button, type in the search word "regedit" and press the Enter key. You need to start the Registry Editor. Then in the editor you need to go the following way:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Policies \ Microsoft

Then right in the left window on the key "Windows" create a new key (Key) under the name "Psched" as it is shown in the picture:

Now right-click on the newly created key in the left part of the window and create a new parameter of type "DWORD" and give it the name "NonBestEffortLimit". To disable the channel reservation, set the "NonBestEffortLimit" key to "0".

Disabling TCP autoconfiguration 

In Windows 7, the auto-tuning function is enabled by default. This function can be one of the reasons why some individual sites or Internet services can be slowly loaded, since this function does not work effectively with a large number of different servers for speed of access. In order to disable the autoconfiguration of TCP, you must run the command prompt on behalf of the administrator and enter the following command into it:

netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel = disabled

Next, you must close the command prompt and reboot the computer for the changes to take effect.

In order to return the autoconfiguration of TCP, you need to enter the following command at the command line (running as administrator):

netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel = normal

And then reboot the computer. 

Hardware browser acceleration 

In some cases, you may have noticed that viewing certain specific Internet pages from your browser is much slower than in previous versions of the same browser. This may be due to the fact that at the moment your browser uses the software rendering mode instead of the GPU rendering mode by default (that is, rendering using hardware acceleration with the help of a graphics processor). This can happen with users who have outdated video cards or drivers to them, which in turn do not support or cease to support hardware acceleration of the GPU. A possible solution to this problem may be to install the latest version of the video adapter driver, which supports GPU hardware acceleration.

If this problem has not been solved by installing the last driver for the video card, the only way out of this situation may be to replace the current video card with a newer one, which will support hardware acceleration with the help of the GPU.

But you can see in what mode your browser works. This, as a rule, can be viewed in the advanced settings of the browser, and more specifically the hardware acceleration option.

An example of how to see whether hardware acceleration is enabled for Internet Explorer :

1. Open Internet Explorer and go to the settings menu "Tools -> Internet Options". 
2. On the Advanced tab, you should see an option to speed up graphics.

Now make sure that the check box is selected next to the option "Use software rendering instead of GPU rendering." If the box is checked, then Internet Explorer uses the software rendering mode. Select the checkbox if you want IE to go into GPU rendering mode. If this option is grayed out and does not change, then your video card or its driver does not support hardware acceleration for the browser.

An example of how to see whether hardware acceleration is enabled for Mozilla Firefox : 

Launch Firefox and open the browser settings using the "Tools -> Options" menu.

Click on the "Advanced" tab, where you should see the "Browsing" section on the "General" tab. In this section there is an option called "If possible, use hardware acceleration" (use hardware acceleration when available). If this option is not selected, then your browser uses the software rendering mode. Check the box to enable Firefox to start using hardware acceleration if its graphics subsystem supports it.

How to Speed ​​Up Internet in Windows 8 with NameBench 

When your browser tries to access the site, it first accesses the DNS name server. The problem is that this server is physically located at your ISP. And what are the small commercial companies famous for? That's right - the desire to save on everything. Therefore, the equipment for DNS service is bought weak. Well, you are trying to enter the site, the browser is accessing the slow DNS server of the provider and there is a delay, which can take several seconds. And now remember that every page of the site can contain pictures, videos, Flash, etc. from other sites. This again DNS requests to the slow server. As a result, the losses are added and the deceleration becomes noticeable. What to do? The answer is obvious: you need to use the fastest DNS servers. Find them and help the program NameBench .

What are we waiting for? Download the NameBench program(free) and run it. Installation is not required. After starting, specify your country, the browser you are using and click the Start Benchmark button. The program will try several dozen DNS-servers and select the fastest for you. On average, you can find a server that runs 2-3 times faster than your ISP's DNS.

After NameBench finds the smartest DNS, you will be shown the IP address of this server. It's something you need to register in the connection settings. Everything is as usual:

You will be pleasantly surprised when you notice that the Internet has become much faster!