Mac Os X 10 5 Torrent Iso Ps2' title='Mac Os X 10 5 Torrent Iso Ps2' />Top 1. Ways to Deal With a Slow Internet Connection. Sometimes, slow internet is the universes way of telling you to go play outside. Hot spots Hot spots Hot spots Hot spots. TheINQUIRER publishes daily news, reviews on the latest gadgets and devices, and INQdepth articles for tech buffs and hobbyists. Check Your Speeds and Your Plan Sometimes, your internet is slow because youre only paying for slow internet. Log onto your providers web site or give. Other times, its the universes 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. Mac Os X 10 5 Torrent Iso Ps2' title='Mac Os X 10 5 Torrent Iso Ps2' />Check Your Speeds and Your PlanSometimes, your internet is slow because youre only paying for slow internet. Log onto your providers 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 youre paying for, then your network is working fine and youre just paying for slow internetand 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 dont 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 Read. 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, tooif 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 its a hardware problem. Then, once you fix your router or modem or replace it, youll be browsing speedily once again. Check out our complete guide to knowing your network for more router tips, too. Youre zooming down the information superhighway getting things done when your usually trustyRead more Read. Fix Your Wi Fi Signal. If youre 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 paragraphin 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 youre 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 youre doing something less web intensive. You can configure your PC to notify you before downloading any updates, and schedule installation when youre not using your computer, either in the middle of the night or when youre off at work. These fixes probably wont 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 forRead more Read. Try a New DNS Server. When you type an address into your browserlike 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 arent having problems, then you probably wont find too much of an improvement with an alternative serverbut it might speed up your browsing by a few milliseconds, at least. Every millisecond counts when youre browsing the web, and if youd like to eke a bitRead more Read. Optimize Your Web for a Slow Connection. Troubleshooting slow internet can take awhile, and in the meantime you still need to browse. Or maybe youre at a coffee shop or on a plane, and theres nothing you can do about your slow speeds. In that case, its 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 situationit can really make a difference when you need to work on a slow connection. Google has its own Data Saver extension, which employs the companys servers to compress browsing data before it reaches you. If youre 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 theres usually no data limit when youre 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 phones 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 orRead more Read. 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 youre 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 cant get it at home, see if you can borrow a neighbor or relative just for those tasks. Similarly, work outside your browser whenever possibleif youre 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. Im going home for the holidays, and my parents have a very slow connection. Read more Read. Call Your Internet Provider. If youve gone through all the necessary troubleshooting steps and your internet is still slow, then its time to call your internet provider and see if the problem is on their end. Remember dont just assume theyve done something wrong, and treat your customer service representative with respect. Youre much more likely to get good results. Dont forget, they can probably hear you bad mouthing them while youre 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 youre at itespecially if theyve been giving you the wrong speeds all this time. Find a New Provider. If your ISP cant help you maybe they dont provide the speeds you want, or maybe youre just sick of their horrible customer service, its 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. Follow These People on Twitter to Help You Understand the TrumpRussia Connection. Its a lot, right Its a lot. It is a firehose of news. How are we supposed to live our lives, cook a meal, uncrimp our hunched over necks Even when I shut my computer, it still flashes its little light in the corner, ready to alert me to the horrors of the world like some kind of pulsing Hellmouth. But one doesnt want to be uninformedSo here is my solution, sort of, when I can restrain myself from nervously tapping and clicking my phone for new news, kind of like one does with a rosary, if a rosary also had the power to deliver jolts of terrified adrenaline I head on over to Twitter. But, instead of traveling aimlessly down that endless media highway, absorbing the random thoughts of random people of my totally un curated Twitter feed and thinking dimly thats interesting about how children should be bored in the summer or wow, that headline has the suffix according to science, so it must be true, or I dont think thats what treason means, Ive made a Twitter list that limits me to legal and political media types who seem to actually understand the TrumpRussianational security issues that are dominating the news. In addition to the accounts that everyone followsThe New York Times, The Washington Post, Maggie Haberman, Preet Bharara, etc. I glance at this short list a few times a day to keep me up to date. Shade Wrath Of Angels. Take a look NB This wont necessarily reduce the amount of time you spend onlinethese people are prolific tweeters, writers, lawyers, and podcasters, and even just this smallish group could send you down some winding Twitter rabbit holes. Have other suggestionsLeave them in the comments and Ill adjust my list on Twitter. Benjamin Wittes is the co founder and editor in chief of Lawfare, which is devoted to the discussion of hard national security choices itself worth following lawfareblog. He was an editorial writer for the Washington Post for nine years and is now a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. His feed serves as both informationentertainment on its own and as an excellent shunt toward other legal tweeters. Chafetz is law professor at Cornell and author of the forthcoming Congresss Constitution Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers. According to Steve Vladeck, the editor in chief of Just Security see below, hes particularly good on the powers and role of Congress. Abramson is an attorney and professor of English at UNH and is apparently devoting his every waking moment to explaining stuff on Twitter. He has 1. 18. K followers, so I guess a lot of other people need these explanations, too. I like his lengthy threads explaining complicated matters in short sentences, because heyif I had any kind of attention span I wouldnt be on Twitter in the first place. Heres the start of an epic thread tweet, this one on criminal versus non criminal investigations A site dedicated to law, rights, and national security. Its co editor in chief, stevevladeck, a law professor at UT, is also worth following, as are others associated with Just Security, like Ryan Goodman at rgoodlaw. Vladeck calls Goodman good for random criminal statutes. I like Just Security for commentary on international events, especially when my attention is so glued to Washington. Goldsmith is a Harvard Law prof, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a co founder of Lawfare. His laconic commentary isnt especially hilarious, but then, what is hilarious about national security these days But his annotations on current events media alert me to what stories arent getting enough attention, as well as longer form commentary for perspective. Finally, a brief shout out to Matt Tait pwnallthethings. Tait writes primarily about cybersecurity, but Benjamin Wittes notes that he also follows Tait for stuff in the legalpoliticalsecurity area too. And with that, I leave you with this tweet.