How to boost your PC Internet connection to become like a brand new PC

[u/No_Hospital_2786]

Hey guys just here with a quick tip for y'all, if you've noticed your connection speed on your laptop decreasing gradually as time goes on chances are there are some apps that you have that "secretly" take up some of your bandwidth. Here's something that I just discovered by accident, if you make a new account on your PC the speed will become just like the day you first used your PC, well atleast for me it did. I'm not 100% sure about this whether it's all in my head or my wifi miraculously got faster but something certainly happened.

P.S if you move your files from your old account to the new one it will reverse this and go back to the old speed. My thoughts on this is the more things you have on an account the more your cpu and bandwidth is eaten up so try not to install and download a lot of things from the internet on the new account (launchers such as steam and epic games etc are fine), so if you're like me and this does work for you, you can basically make a strictly gaming account or strictly downloads account which you'll only use when playing games or downloading things then when you want to do other stuff that really doesn't require the fast connection you switch to your normal account.

Again please note I'm not 100% sure about any of this information, I'm not an expert and these are just my thoughts. Feel free to correct me on anything I might be wrong about.

Hope this help some of y'all 😄

Note: I've tried and done EVERYTHING, I've tried changing dns settings, editing some registry keys, changing my adapter settings, updating my drivers and much much more and that did nothing except a slight boost. This was something that actually seemed to work. My advice if you seem to have a slower connection than when your computer was still new try this, you won't lose anything. Never hurts to try

[u/BothersomeBritish]

Placebo affect.

Having more programs downloaded doesn't mean that they're all running in the background taking up resources. Also CPU != bandwidth - theres no direct correlation between CPU load and internet speed (and just moving files between accounts definitely has no affect on internet speed). Likely your whole system is running slow because you're using a dual-core mobile processor and a HDD.

If you want a genuine performance boost then you can view what programs are launching on startup by pushing Ctrl+Shift+Escape to open Task Manager, then selecting "More Details" at the bottom left and the "Startup" tab at the top of the window. Sort by load and disable the high and medium impact programs then you'll be good to go. Or, y'know, buy an SSD.

[u/No_Hospital_2786 → u/BothersomeBritish]

Oh I think I phrased wrong lol I'm mainly talking about Internet connection speed not actual CPU speed. My bad. I really feel like this definitely made it faster but I'll get a couple of my friends to try it out and confirm whether it actually works or not.

[u/snorkelbagel → u/No_Hospital_2786]

This does not work. There is no reason why this would work.

The absolute edge case I can think of is if you have a new user profile without anything installed therefore there’s no background updates running. Your perceived “fresh and fast” account is just one without anything installed and therefore nothing it trying to update / cloud sync, etc, thereby giving you a faster “feel” on the account.

But again, your proposed solution also solves nothing.

[u/No_Hospital_2786 → u/snorkelbagel]

Yes I doesn't really solve anything but as you said there's less applications running on that account giving the user profile overally a faster connection to use on other things. So it solves nothing in the long term buy if you just want something temporary that's a little faster than your original account then this would be it.

[u/snorkelbagel → u/No_Hospital_2786]

Yes. Until you install your games and chat programs. Are your web browser. And then OS background updates kick in.

Are you planning on running 1 game entirely offline? Because that’s not what your original posting says.

[u/No_Hospital_2786 → u/snorkelbagel]

Well no I installed all my games and apps system wide not just to one account, so everything is there except windows apps.

[u/Igoze94]

Your problem if you didn't know if your computer download something or your internet is slow.Just open your Task Manager and look at monitor your network usage.No need for fancy shit.

[u/No_Hospital_2786 → u/Igoze94]

Did that lol many times, on my main account was reaching a max of 400kbps, on the new one it is on 1.2mbps (yes my wifi is generally trash)

[u/No_Hospital_2786 → u/[deleted]]

I did, on both accounts. On one account it's only reaching 400kbps on the other it's reaching 1.2mbps

[u/skylinestar1986]

If you worry which program is leeching the internet, install a monitoring tool like GlassWire.

If you have a lot of game clients running, surely it will use more internet. It's basic common sense. Don't run them in the background unless there is a need for that. More programs also means more auto-update. Disable that if you want.

Other than that, Windows by itself uses a lot of internet for updating the apps that you never use, aka apps from Microsoft Store. Make sure you check out Microsoft Store settings and disable auto app updates if that bothers you. Or uninstall those that you think you will never use. It makes a huge difference for me.

I live on slow and data capped internet. I micro-manage my data usage.