INCREASE BROADBAND SPEED Tips and Guides

If you’re looking to increase the speed and quality of your broadband connection and your home network, you’ve come to the right site. This independent site provides top tips, free guides and impartial product and service recommendations to give big speed and quality improvements so you can make the most out of your broadband connection and home network. Our expertise is in broadband and IT. For the latest reviews and analysis, visit our blog.

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Where to start if you want to improve your broadband and home/office network

A great place to start on this site is our regularly-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. You may also want to go straight to one of our most popular individual guides, which are:

Buying guides

With ridiculous performance claims from some manufacturers about their products (particularly over Wi-Fi performance), trying to find the right product can be a minefield. We provide guides on how to find the best products for your needs, with some recommendations of equipment that we have used ourselves:

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:

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:

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:

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. 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 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 (with 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:

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:

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.