Network Tips to improve the speed of your home internet connection

 

Hardware tips:

• Turn off internet-connected devices when you aren’t using them.
• Clear your browser cache and cookies.
• Exit streaming apps after watching videos or listening to music.
• Restart devices regularly.
• Turn off auto-updates on apps, gaming consoles and computers.
• Update anti-virus software, drivers, firmware, and computer and device software.
• Upgrade older Wi-Fi devices to ones with newer, faster Wi-Fi technology.

Software tips:

• Zoom:
  • Using Zoom videoconferencing with VPN can decrease the performance of your home internet connection. Only use Global Protect/VPN when it is necessary to access files and applications only 
  • Keep your laptop battery charged or plug-in. When laptop batteries run low there’s often a drop in performance as a power saving strategy. 
  • If you experience poor audio quality using Zoom, you can use the phone numbers provided by the meeting host to access audio via telephone rather than your computer to decrease your bandwidth usage.