How do you make your internet fast?

[Miner_Guy]

I just died on a pvp world while mining gold (i cabbaged teled), when i teled it took 5 minutes to load the screen, it just had a black box saying loading ...%. It was so slow that it was halfway through loading the cabbage field, which already had been 3 minutes, then someone killed me, so i went to lummy which took another 3 minutes. I had my pc rebooted recently, 5 days ago to be precise. So it has nearly full memory, also the internet was working fine yesterday, any suggestions why it happened.

[Sbrideau]

Could you post your computer specs?

[Jernlov]

Is it just RuneScape that's slow, or is it the Internet in general? Or are you doing processor-intensive tasks that are causing RuneScape to lag? If not:

 

 

 

- Check that nobody is doing anything bandwith-intensive on your network, including yourself (such as torrents, downloads using download managers)

 

- Restart your modem and router

 

- Check your wireless signal strength if you are using wireless

 

- Check whether or not you've been capped by your Internet provider by calling them

 

- Check if your Internet provider is having technical difficulties at this time

[thrash-boy]

...I had my pc rebooted recently, 5 days ago to be precise. So it has nearly full memory,...

 

im very confused by what you mean here.

 

how does turning your computer off 5 days ago and having it on since then mean you have full memory?

 

maybe you have got some of your terminology mixed up.

[Sbrideau]

For charlie:

 

 

 

Memory = RAM.

[eggzs]

-Restart your computer

 

-Clear caches

 

-Give more coin to your ISP to upgrade your plan

 

-Stop/Pause downloads in the background

[Furah]

move to right near your local internet exchange, buy the fastest ADSL 2+ plan and buy a faster computer, problems solved...

[JoeDaStudd]

I would run CCleaner to clear out any junk. (I would use the registry cleaner which is built in, but untick the "un-used file type" option).

 

Then update your routers firmware.

 

And lastly download the TCP IP optimizer from here.

[Bauke]

Computer speed has NOTHING to do with an internet connection. Todays pc's are fast enough to handle incoming bandwith from the internet. Buying a faster pc is useless and nonsense. The only limiting factor could be a clogged hard drive which occasionally can slow down the loading of Runescape graphics (Jagex caches their graphics on your hdd). Spyware or other crap might slow it down, but you would have to notice it aswell when doing other stuff on the pc. Therefore it's reasonable to assume your pc is ok (and by that I mean that your hdd isn't clogged to the point that even reading the graphic files from your hdd is getting troublesome, which would mean your pc is utterly crappy), unless you haven't told us that your pc is slow in general.

 

 

 

Faster internet speed is mostly unnecessary aswell. Todays DSL connections give enough bandwith to handle Runescape. What matters is the ping. High ping gives you lag (no, a slow computer does not give lag, it gives a low FPS, or FPS drops, that's something totally different), and thus hinders you in your every day Runescape play. A simple method is to open a command prompt and ping a few websites, including runescape.com.

 

 

 

Proper network gear is also important. Connecting to an instable wireless network will make up for a bad connection. Distance to your local internet exchange is also an important factor. For most people it's allright, but for some people living in a remote area may find trouble getting a stable connection. Not much you can do about that, assuming you don't want to move close to an internet exchange point just because it gets you a better connection. One solution is to get a slower (yes, slower) connection from your ISP. That might give you a more stable connection, and as I said before... bandwith usually isn't the limiting factor.

[Furah]

Computer speed has NOTHING to do with an internet connection. Todays pc's are fast enough to handle incoming bandwith from the internet. Buying a faster pc is useless and nonsense. The only limiting factor could be a clogged hard drive which occasionally can slow down the loading of Runescape graphics (Jagex caches their graphics on your hdd). Spyware or other crap might slow it down, but you would have to notice it aswell when doing other stuff on the pc. Therefore it's reasonable to assume your pc is ok (and by that I mean that your hdd isn't clogged to the point that even reading the graphic files from your hdd is getting troublesome, which would mean your pc is utterly crappy), unless you haven't told us that your pc is slow in general.

 

 

 

Faster internet speed is mostly unnecessary aswell. Todays DSL connections give enough bandwith to handle Runescape. What matters is the ping. High ping gives you lag (no, a slow computer does not give lag, it gives a low FPS, or FPS drops, that's something totally different), and thus hinders you in your every day Runescape play. A simple method is to open a command prompt and ping a few websites, including runescape.com.

 

 

 

Proper network gear is also important. Connecting to an instable wireless network will make up for a bad connection. Distance to your local internet exchange is also an important factor. For most people it's allright, but for some people living in a remote area may find trouble getting a stable connection. Not much you can do about that, assuming you don't want to move close to an internet exchange point just because it gets you a better connection. One solution is to get a slower (yes, slower) connection from your ISP. That might give you a more stable connection, and as I said before... bandwith usually isn't the limiting factor.

 

 

 

my old comp seemed to have issues with RuneScape, and only RuneScape at a certain extent, it was slow,but RS was rediculously slow...

[sloter]

Computer speed has NOTHING to do with an internet connection. Todays pc's are fast enough to handle incoming bandwith from the internet. Buying a faster pc is useless and nonsense. The only limiting factor could be a clogged hard drive which occasionally can slow down the loading of Runescape graphics (Jagex caches their graphics on your hdd). Spyware or other crap might slow it down, but you would have to notice it aswell when doing other stuff on the pc. Therefore it's reasonable to assume your pc is ok (and by that I mean that your hdd isn't clogged to the point that even reading the graphic files from your hdd is getting troublesome, which would mean your pc is utterly crappy), unless you haven't told us that your pc is slow in general.

 

 

 

Faster internet speed is mostly unnecessary aswell. Todays DSL connections give enough bandwith to handle Runescape. What matters is the ping. High ping gives you lag (no, a slow computer does not give lag, it gives a low FPS, or FPS drops, that's something totally different), and thus hinders you in your every day Runescape play. A simple method is to open a command prompt and ping a few websites, including runescape.com.

 

 

 

Proper network gear is also important. Connecting to an instable wireless network will make up for a bad connection. Distance to your local internet exchange is also an important factor. For most people it's allright, but for some people living in a remote area may find trouble getting a stable connection. Not much you can do about that, assuming you don't want to move close to an internet exchange point just because it gets you a better connection. One solution is to get a slower (yes, slower) connection from your ISP. That might give you a more stable connection, and as I said before... bandwith usually isn't the limiting factor.

 

 

 

my old comp seemed to have issues with RuneScape, and only RuneScape at a certain extent, it was slow,but RS was rediculously slow...

 

That would probally be because JRE is using alot of your resources to run RuneScape while your on it.

[Bauke]

Well, naturally computers can have troubles running Runescape, but that has nothing to do with an internet connection and related troubles. If you have a bad connection (and it's not just general slowness from your pc) then your pc speed does not matter. Naturally it's important to have enough resources available for Runescape, especially if you want to play in HD. But, since the topicstarter is specifically talking about his internet connection, his pc speed does not come into play here.

[JoeDaStudd]

Oh, before I forget it might be worthwhile buying a iPlate. The improvement can it 0% to over 200% depending on the line in question.

 

I've just ordered one for myself.

[Faux]

Man, i remember when this forum was actually full of USEFUL people

 

 

 

threadstarter: go to this site and post the results http://speedtest.net/ Then we can figure out if its your PC or your ISP that's the problem.

[Makoto_the_Phoenix]

1) Before I begin with anything, I'll clarify that the speed of your Internet has nothing to do with the processing power of your computer. While it's highly impractical, one could run RuneScape on dial-up.

 

 

 

2) How often do you restart your machine? It should be restarted at least once every two days. Keep your cache clean, too.

 

 

 

3) Give us your specs since we really can't divine whether or not your machine is good enough to play RS [smoothly].

[evil_mumm_ra]

1) Before I begin with anything, I'll clarify that the speed of your Internet has nothing to do with the processing power of your computer. While it's highly impractical, one could run RuneScape on dial-up.

 

 

 

2) How often do you restart your machine? It should be restarted at least once every two days. Keep your cache clean, too.

 

 

 

 

 

i used to play runescape on dial-up, i did it for 5 years, barely any problem, almost no lag. also, i don't restart my comp without a reason.

[BlueLancer]

RS uses minimal bandwith, around 1-5kbps depending on if you just AFK or do multiple activities in a crowded area, so even the worst 56k connections can experience the game normally. Lag problems are almost always because of insufficient RAM or problems at your internet service provider's end. Another problem causer can be your router/insufficient firmware

 

 

 

As Bauker said the two are not connected in any way. A 500mhz processor with 128mb RAM can download just as fast as a 3.2ghz P4 processor with 4GB of ram if you have the proper connection.

 

 

 

Go start -> Run -> write dxdiag, post system specs if possible.

 

 

 

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also, i don't restart my comp without a reason

 

 

 

Even for home users, it's recommended least every 24-48 hours, it flushes RAM and improves system stability.. In corporate settings a big cause of problems is lack of scheduled, automatic server reboots in regular intervals. It will cause the hosted applications to often crash or freeze, drivers get caught in infinite loops, slow processing capacity

[im1knight]

i'm kind of surprised that people don't turn off their computers when they sleep.

 

 

 

RS actually require lots of CPU for some reason. It uses 24% of my Q6600 when everything is at maximum. So if your computer is brought over 4 years ago, then that's where your problem is. Computers 4 years ago happen to run stuff very slowly due to all the updates to the OS, much more resource demanding software running. I have an IMB laptop from 2002, and i can't stand it. It takes over 4 minutes to boot up XP, not to mention for it to finish processing stuff... and it was the best configuration available back in 2002. Also had a Dell desktop from 2005, and it's about to go in the garbage. P4 HT @3.0Ghz, 1.5G Ram is simply not enough at all for games of any sort. Even thorough RS is one of the rather low end games, but it eats up over 60% of the CPU on that Dell computer. When you said the loading speed is slow, check if your hard drive light is on all the time during loading, and open task manager to see how much CPU is it using. It sounds to me like a slow computer problem rather than internet. Mainly because of hard drive

 

and if you really think your internet is slow, then you have no other way out but to get a better ISP.

[Sbrideau]

Yeah, I'm surprised as well how many people don't shut them down while they sleep, it's a useless thing to do as it uses electricity and makes a higher electricity bill. Last time I kept my computer on was when I did a memtest to see if my computer was more stable with the new psu(which it is, and even is faster). Although I think I shouldn't be surprised as there was a time I did keep it open for up to a week. Now I shut it down every night, and even some days.

[Laura]

viewtopic.php?f=45&t=590629

[BlueLancer]

http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=590629

 

 

 

Herr/Anesthesia had a point at the time of writing that sticky, but the reality is most people who know how to diagnose their system or even find out all the specs, don't post many questions on Tech & Computers.

 

 

 

In a lot of cases users don't even know their connection speed or how much RAM they have, so it's pretty useless to tell them to make BIOS configuration changes or remove unused registry keys with regedit. The main thing here, really, is getting the problem fixed.

 

 

 

(Of course, if someone just types "HELP MY PC IS SLOW WAT I DO", that doesn't qualify as a topic, because slowness can be caused by so many things or recent actions)

[JoeDaStudd]

This is kinda in reply to my last post on my topic, but its still very relevant.

 

 

 

I brought a BT iPlate from broadbandbuyer on Tuesday, it arrived on Wednesday. The installation took about 30 seconds and the sync speed when from ~2600kbs to ~5300kbs.

 

Yesterday I re-ran speed speed (You have to wait for your ISP to re-set your BRAS profile)

 

Here are the results

 

Before

 

Down ~2000kbs Up ~460kbs

 

Now

 

Down ~4400kbs Up ~470kbs

 

 

 

Well worth the £12 for twice the speed.

 

I would recommend anyone with a old phone line or high noise ratings gets one.

[Faux]

I had 56kbps when I first played the first version of RS (one/classic/however you call it - remember this was before every graphical update so the gfx looked way worse and the game's res was tiny) and yes, I did lag. Now that they made it prettier, I'm sure there's a higher chance of lagging because of crap connection.