Is there any way I can make my Broadband Internet Faster ?

[245]

like is there any device / router or something like that from which i can speed up my internet connection?

[Rute]

Nope. You can however just call your ISP and pay for an upgrade.

[rowlfe]

No. The reason is in how cable broadband works. Cable broadband (and wireless access) work like a telephone party line. There are two different mechanisms that slow network traffic. Understand first that everyone has a "push to talk" walkie talkie. You listen or you talk, but not both at the same time. The first mechanism is the transmitter itself. When you want to talk (send data), you listen and if the line is clear, you key up and send data. No problem. If the line is busy, you wait for the line to clear and when it does, you key up and send data. The problem surfaces when the line is busy and another wants to talk as you do. When the line clears you both key up and collide, interfere with each other, but you have no way to know this happened. So, you wait for a acknowledgement packet and not getting one, you do it again, and so does the other guy and you collide again. And again, and again, until finally you get far enough out of sync, that one of you is still listening to see if the line is clear and the other keys up, forcing you to wait again for the line to clear. Do you see the problem and why this slowdown is called the "party line effect"? Next, there is the number of users that want service from the access point. The access point only has one transmitter as you do, and can only talk with ONE user at a time, in a daisy chain fashion. If there are 10 users on the line, each only get 10% of the talk time of the access point. Your data throughput slows to 1/10th of that when you are alone. If there are 100 users, you drop to 1%. So, there you have it, the two mechanisms that make up the party line effect. All of this is outside of your control, on the other side of your router, which is why a different router will have NO effect. What you CAN do is on your side of the router. Use hardwire instead of wireless. Your wireless links are a party line but on a smaller scale than with cable broadband. Transmitters count, so your neighbor using wireless affects YOU. You have to wait for the line to clear from his traffic, just as he has to wait for the lint to clear for your traffic. Equal opportunity interference. ALL users using wireless slow down equally the more users there are. How many other wireless networks can you "hear" in your list? Each counts for at least 2 transmitters. Next, reduce the number of computers and applications trying to send data to your ISP. The link to your ISP is like a one lane bridge with alternating directions of traffic (also known in the trade as "half-duplex"). The rate traffic flows each way is determined by your ISP. Think of the data being like a single railroad train of fixed length. You load up the box cars with data and send it along to your ISP. Your ISP processes the data and then loads the train with the results and sends it back your way. All well and good, until a second train appears (from another computer or application). The trains have to merge to cross the bridge, which means twice as long to cross the bridge. Which means each train gets HALF the bandwidth of the bridge. If it takes 1 second for 1 train to cross, 2 trains will take 2 seconds. Your BEST configuration is one computer running one application, so you only have one train of data, which maximizes the use of the data pipe to and from your ISP. Bottom line: You can do nothing about what lies beyond your router. You can only affect what happens on your own network. Therefore a new router will have no effect on your throughput with your ISP. Your only option with your ISP is to PAY for a faster link, which solves nothing, but the traffic jams will seem to clear sooner, which will up your throughput to some extent. The SPEED of your connection with your ISP is a theoretical maximum that you can never actually reach even if you are alone on the wire with your ISP. The best you can do is HALF the rated maximum since the conversation is half duplex with a single pair of wires. It takes 2 pairs o have full duplex (data flowing both ways at the same time.

Class dismissed. You now know that "nothing can be done", and WHY nothing can be done, which deserves "best" answer...