Why does my Internet speed seem to be slower?

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Internet speed depends on several things, ranging from location of the web site you are looking at, the number of people accessing a site and a computer’s memory capacity. Adware or spyware will also slow down the speed of your computer making virus protection and firewall very important.
 

• If you are experiencing slow speeds all of the time, reboot your modem by unplugging the power to the modem for 30 seconds. Plug the modem back in to the power supply, wait five minutes and try again.
• If you are experiencing slow speeds going from page to page, but other speeds are OK, your browsers cache size may be set incorrectly:

1. From Internet Explorer, click on Tools menu.
2. Scroll down to Internet Options (PC); on MAC go to Preferences under Explorer menuheading.
3. Click on the Setting button located in the Temporary Internet Files area.
4. Set the cache size to be somewhere between 1MB – 10MB and make sure it is selected to always check for a new version of the page.

 

In Netscape Navigator, go to Edit, then Preferences. In the Advanced area, there should be a cache window where you will have similar options.

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