Showing posts with label Windows Geeks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows Geeks. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Tweak Your Internet for Good Browsing Speed and Faster Ping



After a long break, I am finally back with a tweak that may help you to increase your Internet Browsing Speed. For understanding this tweak, you have to have a basic knowledge of the words that are generally used in networking like Ping, Jitter etc. 
You also should be familiar with the Registry editing as well as you should also know using Windows Batch Files. Because this tweak is all about editing Registry & tweaking the internet using a .bat(Windows Batch File). 
So, here is a brief knowledge about the words mentioned above:

Ping: This measurement tells how long it takes a "packet" of data to travel from your computer to a server on the Internet and back. Whenever you experience delayed responses in Internet applications - this would be due to a higher than desired ping. Similar to packet loss, lower is better when it comes to ping. A result below 100 ms should be expected from any decent broadband connection.





Jitter: Once you understand ping, jitter should also make sense. Jitter is merely the variance in measuring successive ping tests. Zero jitter means the results were exactly the same every time, and anything above zero is the amount by which they varied. Like the other quality measurements, a lower jitter value is better. And while some jitter should be expected over the Internet, having it be a small fraction of the ping result is ideal.


And here are some words related to your computer:

Registry: The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores configuration settings and options on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It contains settings for low-level operating system components as well as the applications running on the platform: the kernel, device drivers, services, SAM, user interface and third party applications all make use of the registry. The registry also provides a means to access counters for profiling system performance.

Batch File: In DOS, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows, a batch file is a text file containing a series of commands intended to be executed by the command interpreter. Similar to job control language and other systems on mainframe and minicomputer systems, batch files were added to ease the work required for certain regular tasks by allowing the user to set up a batch script to automate many commands.

So now, after understanding this knowledge, I shall make you know that by tweaking Registry and applying some TCP/IP commands via Batch file, you can tweak your internet connection easily.

Tweaking the Registry and writing the long command lines are very annoying and time consuming. So, to reduce the time consumption, I have created the two files, which will automatically change the required settings. Here are the Download links for the files.
  1. Network Tweaked.bat
  2. Network.reg
After downloading these files, first run the Network.reg file. It will prompt a warning window, select "yes".
Then Right click on the file "Network Tweaked.bat" and select "Run As Administrator".
After doing this, restart your computer and see the difference.

Before applying this tweak, back up your registry to prevent any loss.

This is a knowledge based article. CyberTechBlog.tk is not responsible for any loss occurs.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Try Google Namebench For A Faster Internet Experience

If you are tired of your current internet connection speed, if you have wasted a plenty of time in search of a working trick to increase the speed of your internet connection and if you are a power-user and wanting a faster internet experience with 5 minutes to spare, "Google Namebench" is there to help you. (As Google always does!!!)

Try out Namebench. It hunts down the fastest DNS Servers available for your computer to use. 


How Does Namebench Work?

Namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, TCPdump output, or standardized datasets, in order to provide an individual recommendation.
Namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way. This project began as 20% project at Google.
Namebench runs on MAC OS X, Windows, and UNIX, and is available with a graphical user interface as well as command line interface.


Namebench was written using open-source tools and libraries Python, Tkinter, PyObjC, dnspython, jinja2 and graphy.

Screenshots
Here is what the nameserver overview looks like.








If you don't know how to change dns server in Windows, visit this [How-To] change DNS Server

Download Links:

Friday, April 1, 2011

Speed up your Internet via "ISC BIND local DNS Server" or "Google Open DNS Server"

Many of the internet surfers (I should call them "Netizens" rather) most commonly, are not satisfied with their current internet connection speed. They are always in search of some tricks and tweaks to increase their internet connection speed. Most tweaks found on internet either works partially or don't work at all, which lead to frustration and waste of the time. So, to save the time and also to save you from such embarrassment. here I've come up with a small trick that will increase your internet connection speed a bit.

The most useful tool for the whole internet establishment is the DNS server (Domain Name Server). Without it the internet is not possible. It is used every time you type and hit enter in your browser address bar. The DNS server is used to convert the normal website address to the IP address with the help of it's directory in which, the  IP address are stored for the websites all around the web. Moreover, due to its usefulness and functionality, it also can be used to increase your internet speed. More fast the DNS server is, the more time you save which results in increase of your browsing speed.

Most of the ISPs (Internet Service Provoders), use their own DNS server for more reliability and security. But if you are not satisfied with your ISP's DNS server, you may use this trick.

To be precise, there are two tricks for it.
  1. Using Google open DNS Server
  2. Using local DNS Server on your computer
Google open DNS Server

First, i will tell you about the Google Open DNS Server. their IP addresses are as following
  • 8.8.8.8
  • 8.8.4.4
To change DNS Server, Goto,
Control Panel> Network and Internet> View network status and tasks
At this point you will get the following window...


 Then click on "Local Area Connection"


Then Click on "Properties"


Then DOUBLE CLICK on "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)


Then change the DNS Server to 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4

If you don't see any change in your speed, use the below trick.....

Using Local DNS Server (ISC BIND)

You can also use the local DNS Server located on your computer. The most commonly used local DNS Server is ISC BIND. Just download and install it and see the change.....

You can DOWNLOAD IT HERE

If you find this post useful or have any query, don't hesitate to post your query in the comments below....Thank You.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

[How-To] Remove text from Desktop icons in Windows


Sometimes, you might have thought to remove the under icon text of your Desktop Icons as it looks quite annoying especially for the kind of icons like, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari, Mozilla Firefox, iTunes, Windows Media Player etc. Nowadays, the Icons represent the program quite nicely, especially in the OS like Windows 7 & Vista, there is a very less need to have under icon text.

So, to remove the under icon text, there is a quite nice and very less talked about shortcut, that allows you to remove the under icon text quite nicely.

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