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How To Speed Up Internet Using CMD

The document provides steps to speed up internet using commands in Windows 10. It details using commands like ipconfig, netsh, and flushing the DNS cache and temporary folder to clear out obsolete or stale data and optimize network settings and performance.

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How To Speed Up Internet Using CMD

The document provides steps to speed up internet using commands in Windows 10. It details using commands like ipconfig, netsh, and flushing the DNS cache and temporary folder to clear out obsolete or stale data and optimize network settings and performance.

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How to speed up internet using cmd:

Check internet speed using cmd pings to default


gateway
You can check your internet connection speed by sending ping
packets to your default gateway.

To know your default gateway, you can use ipconfig /all command.
Once you get the IP address of your default gateway, start running
a continuous ping by typing ping -t <your default gateway
address>. The time field value will show you the time taken to get
an acknowledgment from the gateway.

Lower time value is an indication that your network is faster.


However, running a lot of pings consume network bandwidth as
well as your default gateway resources. Though the data packets for
ping are very negligible in size and you might not observe any
change in internet speed but it does consume bandwidth.
IP
release and renew
Well, If you are using a WiFi connection, in the case of IP release and
renew, you may experience a temporary speed boost, depending on
the strength of the WiFi signal. However, in the case of LAN, it won't
affect speed.
Flushdns to Speed up internet using cmd
Our computer maintains a list of the websites and their
corresponding IP addresses that we access the most in the DNS
resolver cache. Sometimes, these data become obsolete after months
or weeks. So when we flush our DNS resolver cache, we actually
flush out the obsolete data and make new entries in the DNS
resolver cache table.
Using this command, you might initially experience a slower
connection because of the requirement of the new DNS lookups for
every resource. However, you will soon experience faster loading of
the websites in your browser.

Speed up internet using cmd 'Netsh int tcp' command:


Type this command in your command prompt window and observe
carefully:
If you do not see Receive Window Autotuning level as 'Normal' as
shown above then run the following command:

 netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal


This command will set your TCP receive window to Normal from
the disabled or restricted state. TCP receive window is one of the
key factors in the internet download speed. Thus making the TCP
receive window to 'Normal' will surely help you in increasing your
internet speed.

After this command, let's check for another parameter of Windows


in terms of the slow internet connection called 'Windows scaling
heuristics'. To check for this parameter, type

 netsh interface tcp show heuristics


Well, in my case, it's disabled. However, in some case, you might it
enabled. That means Microsoft in some ways, is trying to limit your
internet connection. So avoid it and to get faster internet, type the
below command and press enter:

 netsh interface tcp set heuristics disabled


Once pressed enter, you will receive an 'ok' message and now your
internet speed has surely got boosted up.

Once you are done with the above steps, you can follow step one
again to measure the time value in getting a ping acknowledgment
from the default gateway, just to check if your internet speed has
gone up or not.
If you are also aware of the other Windows tweaks which can help
us to speed up internet using CMD or some other way, let us know in
the comments below.

Also Read: The Ultimate A to Z List Of Windows CMD Commands

How to Fix Slow Internet Speed in Windows 10

If you have been using Windows 10 for a while now and have accessed several websites, it is likely that
your browsing speed would become slow over time. Many times this happens because of the stale
records in the DNS cache and the over-populated TEMP folder of your user profile.

In order to fix the reduced Internet browsing speed for your Windows 10 computer, you can flush the
DNS cache and empty the TEMP folder by following a few simple steps given below:

1. Using an administrator account, log on to your Windows 10 PC.


2. Once on the desktop window, right-click the Start button from the bottom-left corner.
3. From the context menu that comes up, click Command Prompt (Admin).
4. When prompted, click Yes in the User Account Control confirmation box.
5. In the opened Administrator: Command Prompt window, type the IPCONFIG
/FLUSHDNS command and press Enter.

6. After the command is executed successfully, in the same window, type EXIT and hit Enter.
7. Once you are back on the desktop screen, press the Windows + R keys together to open
the Run command box.
8. In the available field, type %TEMP% and press Enter.

9. When inside the opened Temp folder, press the Ctrl + A keys together to select all the displayed
contents.
10. Right-click any of the selected objects.
11. From the context menu, click Delete.

12. Close the Temp folder.


13. Back on the desktop screen, click Start.
14. Click Power from the Start menu.
15. From the displayed options, click Restart to restart the PC.
16. Once restarted, start using the increased browsing speed in your Windows 10 computer.

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