How can i make my broadband faster, i heard the only way is to be close to the exchange. which im not.

Question

so is there any other way

Answer 1

im not quite sure how to make broadband faster, but i know that there are lots of internet providers that offer a connection much faster than broadband, such as Verison FiOS

Answer 2

I am assuming that you are talking about ADSL.

The speed for your ADSL broadband depends on two factors.

1.   The distance between your home and your local telephone facilities

The speed which are impacted by how close you are to the local telephone facilities. Normally, you need to be at least within 3 miles from the closest facility. The closer you are to the facility, the stronger your signal you will get. There is not much you can change there if you are not close to your facility. You can use the speedtest website to determine your download/upload speed comparing that with your subscription speed.

2.     Of course the second factor is what kind of package you are subscribe to. If you want faster speed, you have to subscribe to a higher speed package.

If you find out that you are too far from the facility, then your other option will be change it to cable. The only drawback willl be you are sharing your bandwidge is shared among other people and it maybe slower during the peak hours.

Answer 3

you can speed up cable internet by running around to all the neighbours and cutting their lines, or with ADSL you will need to pay your ISP more.

Answer 4

What do you mean "close to the exchange"?

Do you mean the ISP's Point of Presence?  or the Exchange Server?

Your broadband speed is based on what you pay for and what your trying to do with it.  If you pay more, you will be MUCH MUCH faster!  However, other factors are involved as Download Speed depends on SOOO many things.

1)  The speed of your connection to the Internet is one of the main factors.  The faster you are, the better your chances of getting the "speed" your desiring.

2)  The distance between you and the distant end your surfing.  THe longer the distances, the bigger the chance that you will hit congestion.  If any router between you and the server your making request from is busy, your speed halts BIG TIME!  Also, what time of day is it?  Early in the morning on the east coast will usually have better surfing than later when the west coast wakes up!

3)  The type of traffic.  TCP traffic requires a response for EACH and every packet.  UDP (sound / video) doesnt care.  However, if the quality is low, you will see/hear it on your end (lagging, buffering).

4)  The speed of the distant end connection to the Internet.  Usually this is quite large since they sometimes have a server farm of services (not just one site).

5)  The final factor is how busy the site is that your making a request from.  If 1000's of people are going to it, and they only have one web server, your going to once again see your speed be diminished!

If at any point you go above 60 percent on any of the above, you start to have queuing.  Think of queuing as going into a grocery store and the manger trying to guess how many people will be shopping at any given time.  He will have so many checkout counters open.  Sometimes you will be able to walk RIGHT up, other times, he might get stuck in the queue!

Try going to:

http://www.speedtest.net/

or

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

to show what speed you are really getting.  Test it on sites that are further away and you will start to see your speed fall as you hit congestion somewhere!  

I have Verizon FIOS and get 10.5 Mbps down and about 1.9 Mbps up.

Answer 5

the only way you could make your broadband faster is by paying more to your service provider and getting a high bandwidth plan. except that everything else is a myth.

cheers!!!

Answer 6

The closer to the exchange you are the less interference there are programs that will help boost your speed the alter windows setting to suit your setup search on web for them too many to list ensure you get one that is not limited because its trialware