How Do You Speed Up A Dial Up Connection For Free?
While purchasing a few more sticks of RAM could speed up your sluggish dial up connection, there are a couple of things that you can do to speed up your connection without costing you a dime. Close unnecessary applications to free up some virtual memory; more memory equals faster-loading pages. Some programs may close on the screen but still have processes lingering in the background. Press CRT+ALT+DEL on your keyboard. Click the button labeled “Task Manager.” Under the tab that appears there will be a long list of running processes (i.e. firefox.exe, wmplayer.exe). Select the process that you would like to end and then click the “End Process” button. Be sure that you know which program the process is a part of–otherwise you could cause a crash. Install a firewall to stop unnecessary applications from accessing the Internet and hogging your bandwidth. Free firewalls, like Comodo’s found at Personalfirewall.comodo.com, let you deny or approve the attempts of any application or process
