If you’re looking to increase your broadband speed and speed up Internet, you’ve come to the right site. This independent site provides top tips, free guides and impartial product and service recommendations to give big broadband speed improvements and make the most out of your connection. Our expertise is in broadband and we don’t do electricity provider comparisons, dishwasher reviews or finding the best insurance. We also support communities across the UK who wish to improve their broadband connectivity.
Thank you for supporting this site. We’ve already helped millions of broadband users and our website traffic has quadrupled in a year. We are excited to bring you much more content in the coming months. If you cannot find what you are looking for, or would like to suggest a new guide that would be useful, please contact us.
Where to start if you want to improve your broadband speed
A great place to start on this site is our newly-updated Increase Broadband Speed Guide, which we believe is the most comprehensive online. This will take you through the 15 top tips that are proven to work. Boost your speeds now! You may also want to go straight to one of our most popular individual guides, which are:
How to Fix Bufferbloat With Smart Queue Management (a great guide for online gamers in particular)
How to Set Up and Improve Wi-Fi
How to Measure Your Speed Accurately With Our Online Speed Test
Why go for superfast and ultrafast broadband?
About 96% of UK premises now have access to superfast fibre broadband (delivering download speeds above 30 Mbps), and an increasing number can access ultrafast services (>100 Mbps). Broadband technology is for a purpose and not for technology’s sake. If you are not sure of the benefits you’d get from superfast or ultrafast broadband, then hopefully our articles will convince you:
Ten Reasons You Need Superfast Broadband
Ten Reasons You Need Ultrafast FTTP Broadband
Broadband is not about the numbers; it’s about all the exciting range of services that the technology potentially brings to your life or business. That’s why, on this site, we want to bring your attention to the new and improved services that are enabled with high-speed broadband. Here are some recent articles:
Review: Sky Finally Launches HDR With Its Ultra HD 4k Service
Review of Disney Plus in the UK
BBC iPlayer Ultra HD (4k) Demonstrates Amazing Picture Quality
Superfast Broadband Fuels Streamed Video-on-Demand Services
Amazon Music HD Service Spells New Era for CD-Quality Music Streaming
Guide for rural communities wanting FTTP
With recent improvements in the Government’s Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme and the introduction of ‘top ups’ by local authorities, there’s never been a better time for communities to take proactive action to bring full-fibre Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband to their areas. Our regularly-updated guide on how to get it, based on real experience and lessons from bringing FTTP to rural communities in Cambridgeshire, can be viewed here:
New! Guide For Rural Communities: How to Get Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) Now!
Broadband technology simply explained
Broadband technology can be hard to understand if it’s not explained very well. Understanding it can often really help you work out what’s realistically possible and the best ways to improve your broadband speeds. On this site, we try to explain technology in a way that helps you may the right decisions. Here are some articles you may find useful:
What is Fibre Broadband? FTTC and FTTP Explained
Chart of Fibre Broadband (FTTC) Speeds Versus Distance From the Street Cabinet
Chart of Standard Broadband (ADSL) Speed Versus Distance From the Exchange
Fibre Broadband VDSL2 Vectoring Finally Arrives
G.INP, the New Fibre Broadband Enhancement Arrives
What if you cannot get superfast or ultrafast broadband?
With increasing availability of superfast and ultrafast broadband in the UK, it can be extremely frustrating if you are not able to get those services. We have been there and we really do feel your pain! If you have no other option than standard broadband, there is still hope and there are lots of things you can do to squeeze out the best speeds from your existing connection. Techniques such as SNR tweaking, Wi-Fi optimisation and properly implementing Quality of Service in your router (e.g. Smart Queue Management) can dramatically improve your broadband experience by prioritising important traffic.
Here are some of our most popular guides for those using standard broadband:
How to Increase Basic Broadband Speeds Using SNR Tweaking
How to Improve Performance and Fix Bufferbloat with Smart Queue Management
How to Set Up and Improve Wi-Fi
Another option that may be open to you is to use multiple broadband connections. There are a number of choices, including using bonded broadband services. For more information, visit our guides:
Guide on Multiple Connections and Broadband Bonding
Guide on Bonded ADSL (or ADSL Bonding)
We hope that this site is useful to you, and we love hearing success stories, so please get in touch to let us know if we have been helpful. We receive many emails every day from people looking for specific solutions to their broadband problems. While we do try to respond to as many of these as we can, we apologise that we cannot provide detailed responses to everyone.