The wait is not fun
It’s crazy how much we rely on internet speed. This became particularly evident in the era of video calls, when people say “your screen is frozen” at least three times a day. Here are five simple ways to boost your internet speed.
Check your network
The first thing that hampers internet speed is some kind of network problem. Troubleshooting WiFi sounds like something that only a qualified professional can do. But guess what, 80% of network problems can be fixed by you. With the help of good apps, that is.
WiFi Explorer can check for network conflicts, signal overlaps, and signal-to-noise ratio — the most common network issues. And if you maximize the signal v noise, for example, you can seriously boost signal performance.
NetSpot will help check for dead spots — the spots in your room where the WiFi signal is extremely slow or non-existent. Based on NetSpot insights, you can move your WiFi router to a place with the best network signal, and therefore increase the internet speed.
Run a speed test
It’s fair to say that anything above 100 Mbps is considered good internet speed. However, it totally depends on what you want to do. For example, if you’re downloading a movie, you need a good download speed. But if you’re having a video call, upload speed is essential.
CleanMyMac X can run speed tests on your network and show whether this speed is good enough for whatever you intend to do on Mac.
Disable bandwidth-hogging apps
Whatever the internet speed, you can still speed up downloads with TripMode. It’s an app that essentially helps save internet data when you’re on mobile or expensive hotspots. You can use it to control bandwidth consumption by app. For example, if you want to speed up the download process in Spotify, you can reserve bandwidth for Spotify only.
Achieve 20x better speed with Folx
If you’re downloading videos, songs, or torrent files, speed up the process with Folx. It’s the fastest media downloader we know of. Folx’s superpower is that it can split downloads in up to 20 different streams, all running in parallel. This is how you download a video 20x times faster than with any other downloader.
Speed up browser downloads
Downloading in Chrome or any other browser? Here’s a trick: send your downloads directly to Folx through a browser extension. You’ll certainly speed things up. Folx has extensions for all major browsers, which you can install from the app’s Preferences > Browsers.
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