![]() 9. Troubleshoot Your Hardware. Before you go cursing your internet provider, give your modem and router a quick reset (that is, turn them off and on again) and see if. This domain name is for sale (100,000 USD): uploading.com Write us for more information @. BibMe Free Bibliography & Citation Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard.Top 1. 0 Ways to Deal With a Slow Internet Connection. Sometimes, slow internet is the universe’s way of telling you to go play outside. Other times, it’s the universe’s cruel joke to destroy your productivity. Here are 1. 0 ways to troubleshoot, fix, or just survive a slow internet connection.*This story originally ran in June, 2. Patrick Austin in August, 2. Check Your Speeds (and Your Plan)Sometimes, your internet is slow because you’re only paying for slow internet. Log onto your provider’s web site (or give them a call) and find out what plan you have. Then, head on over to Speedtest. If the numbers match up to what you’re paying for, then your network is working fine and you’re just paying for slow internet—and the best way to speed it up will be to upgrade. Though some of the below tricks will help you eke out a bit more speed). If the numbers don’t match, read on for a few ways to fix that problem. As I understand it, most internet service plans require you to pay for specific upload and download …Read more 9. Troubleshoot Your Hardware. Before you go cursing your internet provider, give your modem and router a quick reset (that is, turn them off and on again) and see if that helps. Check the other computers in your house to see if their internet is slow, too—if the problem only happens on one computer, the problem is that computer, not your router or modem. Run through these troubleshooting steps to see if it’s a hardware problem. Then, once you fix your router or modem (or replace it), you’ll be browsing speedily once again. Check out our complete guide to knowing your network for more router tips, too. You're zooming down the information superhighway getting things done when your usually- trusty…Read more 8. Fix Your Wi- Fi Signal. If you’re using Wi. Fi, you might find that your router and internet are fine, but your wireless signal is weak, causing a slowdown. In that case, you may need to reposition, tweak, and boost your router with a few tricks. There are more than we could share in one paltry paragraph—in fact, we have a whole top 1. Wi. Fi, so check that out if you suspect wireless signal is the problem. Turn Off Bandwidth- Hogging Plugins and Apps. If your hardware seems to be in working order, see if any other programs are hogging the connection. For example, if you’re downloading files with Bit. Torrent, regular web browsing is going to be slower. You should also try installing extensions like Ad. Block Plus or Flash. Block, which will block some of the bandwidth- hogging ads, animations, and videos that can use up your connection. File- syncing services like Google Drive, Dropbox, or One. Drive might be moving data in the background, which can eat up your bandwidth and slow down your internet connection. Quit or pause those applications if you find them moving files. Computers often download necessary updates in the background, while you’re doing something less web- intensive. You can configure your PC to notify you before downloading any updates, and schedule installation when you’re not using your computer, either in the middle of the night or when you’re off at work. These fixes probably won’t solve all your issues, but they can at least help make a slow connection feel more usable. Dear Lifehacker, My favorite private Bit. Torrent tracker, Demonoid, has apparently gone down for…Read more 6. Try a New DNS Server. When you type an address into your browser—like lifehacker. DNS to look up and translate that into a computer- friendly IP address. Sometimes, though, the servers your computer uses to look up that information can have issues, or go down entirely. Check out our guide to finding the fastest (and most secure) DNS servers for more information. If your default DNS servers aren’t having problems, then you probably won’t find too much of an improvement with an alternative server—but it might speed up your browsing by a few milliseconds, at least. Every millisecond counts when you're browsing the web, and if you'd like to eke a bit…Read more 5. Optimize Your Web for a Slow Connection. Troubleshooting slow internet can take awhile, and in the meantime you still need to browse. Or maybe you’re at a coffee shop or on a plane, and there’s nothing you can do about your slow speeds. In that case, it’s time to optimize your web for a slower connection: use mobile or HTML versions of your favorite sites, disable images, and use features like Opera Turbo. In fact, we recommend setting up a secondary browser on your laptop for just such a situation—it can really make a difference when you need to work on a slow connection. Google has its own Data Saver extension, which employs the company’s servers to compress browsing data before it reaches you. If you’re in a pinch and really need to get online, you can always tether to your smartphone, turning it into an access point for your laptop or other wireless device. While there’s usually no data limit when you’re browsing in your home or at a coffee shop, tethering via your smartphone could eat up your data cap. You should employ the same data- saving tips when using your phone’s tethering service. Optimizing your web browser with mobile or HTML versions of web pages is useful when data is not only hard to come by, but potentially pricey. No matter how fast your home network may be, we all get stuck using slow, unreliable Wi- Fi or…Read more 4. Work Smart. If you need to get work done on your slow connection, you may have to prioritize tasks differently than if your internet were super fast. So, separate your tasks into bandwidth- heavy and bandwidth- light ones. Get the light ones done when you’re on your slow connection, and group all the bandwidth- heavy tasks together so you can do them if and when you get faster access (and if you can’t get it at home, see if you can borrow a neighbor or relative just for those tasks). Similarly, work outside your browser whenever possible—if you’re doing basic writing, do it in your favorite text editor instead of in your browser. If you plan your work ahead of time, you can at least make the best of a bad situation. Dear Lifehacker. I'm going home for the holidays, and my parents have a very slow connection.…Read more 3. Call Your Internet Provider. If you’ve gone through all the necessary troubleshooting steps and your internet is still slow, then it’s time to call your internet provider and see if the problem is on their end. Remember: don’t just assume they’ve done something wrong, and treat your customer service representative with respect. You’re much more likely to get good results. Don’t forget, they can probably hear you bad- mouthing them while you’re on hold. Check out our guide to getting better customer service for tips on cutting the line and getting your way. You might want to see if you can get a better deal on your internet, while you’re at it—especially if they’ve been giving you the wrong speeds all this time. Find a New Provider. If your ISP can’t help you (maybe they don’t provide the speeds you want, or maybe you’re just sick of their horrible customer service), it’s time to find a new ISP. You might have trouble in this endeavor, however, due to the stranglehold ISPs have on the market, stifling competition and giving consumers few options from which to choose. That may mean a switch to a different type of provider might be in order, like cable, DSL, satellite, or fiber. You should do a little research before you pick up the phone. Check out our guide to choosing the best provider in your area, and make sure they provide the type of speeds you want. Dear Lifehacker, My internet has ticked me off for the last time and I've been thinking of…Read more 1. Use Your Time Productively. If you’re lucky, you can get your internet speeds back up to snuff quickly and stress- free. But, if not, you can at least try to put a good spin on it: As long as your work isn’t too bandwidth- intensive, slow internet could actually make you more productive. After all, if Facebook takes a minute to load, you’re a lot less likely to pop over for a “quick break” (that turns into an hour- long photo- fest) when you’re supposed to be working on that term paper. I know we’ve all seen it. People at your local Starbucks and coffee shop crouching over their…Read more. Cassini Took One Last Look at a Mysterious Glitch in Saturn's Rings Before It Died. Peggy is something along the edge of Saturn’s ring, a glitch whose source we’ve never seen. Cassini took a last peek at Peggy during its Grand Finale destructive plunge, adding a final piece to the puzzle for future researchers to pore over when trying to understand this mysterious disturbance. Cassini project veteran Carl Murray of Queen Mary University of London recalls his first sighting of the ring glitch, in early 2. He was studying an image of Saturn’s moon Prometheus at the outside edge of the A- ring, deliberately exposed to show the background stars. We saw this kind of bump- glob- feature- object whatever,” he told me last week, during the lunch break of the Cassini final Imaging Team meeting, as we chatted at the Huntington Botanical Gardens near Caltech.“We obviously wanted to know, ‘Was it real?’” said Murray. He and his team quickly checked previous images of the area, and now that they knew what they were looking for, they kept finding that strange, stepped- out glitch in the otherwise smoothly- curving edge of the A- ring. The day I found it was my mother- in- law’s birthday,” Murray recalled, so he named it Peggy in her honor. It seemed appropriate.”Soon, the team’s questions about Peggy expanded: “What is it? Where did it come from? Where is it going?” he explained. We’ve been tracking it almost ever since.”Murray and his colleagues realized the glitch must be caused by an object embedded in the rings. We’ve never actually resolved the object,” Murray said. All we can do is track the glitch.”Measuring the size of the disturbance, he quickly realized it couldn’t possibly be a solid moon. It would be a massive Titan- size moon,” Murray explained. If a moon that size was there, it would be totally disrupting the ring.” Instead, he figured it must be a dense cloud of dust and debris, possibly encompassing a proto- moon that hasn’t yet broken free as an independent object. As the mysterious object drifts closer to and farther from Saturn within the rings, it causes the glitch along the outer edge to change speeds. By measuring the speed of the glitch, we can measure the orbital parameters of the object,” Murray explained. Including Peggy in Cassini’s final six images of the Saturn system was partly sentimental, but the spacecraft was also collecting valuable scientific information. Every image we get which should contain Peggy is yet another data point that will help us understand what it is, where it is, where it’s come from, and where it’s going to go even when we’re not around to take images any more,” Murray said. The fact that it’s one of the last images from Cassini is touching, but we’re doing it for science.”But tracking an object when you don’t know what exactly that object is can be tricky. Cassini’s imaging team has found Peggy time and time again, but not always where and when they expected it. Sometimes you see it, sometimes you don’t,” Murray said with a sigh. This uncertainty made planning the final image tricky. We actually gave Peggy a large margin of error because it’s a bit wayward sometimes.” Adding to the complexity of the shot, Cassini was on the far side of the system, shooting the rings from across the planet. This means the resolution was lower: at 2. Peggy’s characteristic glitch will only be a few hundred pixels in the image. Murray and his team stayed up late Thursday night waiting for the raw images to download. They brought everything they needed to analyze Peggy right away, working off nervous energy before joining others in standing vigil for Cassini’s final moments. When I checked in with him via email on Friday, Murray was optimistic but uncertain Cassini had successfully found Peggy one final time, writing, “I would like to think that it is [in] the one that also contains Daphnis,” a tiny moon of Saturn that lies within the Keeler Gap of Saturn’s A- ring, he said, before linking me to the raw image. Kevin Gill stayed up late on Thursday processing Cassini’s final images for release on Friday morning. I couldn’t find Peggy in the data though I’m still looking,” he told me, confirming the glitch is being characteristically difficult to identify. Peggy’s probably there, I just haven’t found exactly where yet.”“I’m used to every day going to the computers when the images come down [to] just look for fun stuff, like Peggy!” explained Murray. It’s going to take me awhile to get used not getting to see these images every day.”Cassini’s mission is done, and its raw image gallery will never have a new update. But Murray, his postdoc, and the rest of the mission scientists still have fruitful years ahead of them poking through thirteen years of data and trying to understand this beautiful, complex Saturnian system. Perhaps, they’ll even come to understand Peggy a little bit better.
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