How to increase internet speed in Android Mobile
How to increase internet speed in Android Mobile – Nowadays Smartphones are playing very important role in our life. Whether you want to book a cab, want to order for food, make payment of bills everything become easier on mobile phones. To access all the features and apps you need a good quality of internet connection.
It may be provided by a Wi-Fi router at your home or office from your Internet service provider (ISP) (Airtel/ Hathaway/ Triple Play etc.) or from by cellular network (Airtel / Jio/ Vodafone etc.) in the form of 3G or 4G (LTE) data network.
Many times it has been happened to the mobile users that their internet speed is not up to the mark or very poor. They even found difficulties to access even a website on their mobile phone browser. There are many reasons behind this, for example, your mobile is not in the proper range of cellular network, or there are some issues with the Wi-Fi routers or itself the issue of ISP side.
However, the ISP or cellular network determines the internet speed in your mobile. By using some of tips, you can manage to improve certain limits to increase internet speed in your android mobile.
How to increase internet speed on Wi-Fi network in Android mobile
If you are facing network issue in your home due to poor Wi-Fi coverage, you can follow some of the steps to improve Wi-Fi coverage. First, check if your router is a dual band router (2.4GHz / 5GHz).
In dual band routers at 5 GHz band, you will get high data speed but low coverage area, and on 2.4 GHz you will get low speed but higher coverage area. You need to turn on both the band in dual band router and rename SSID differently for easy identification.
In the places, where network coverage is poor, you can switch to 2.4 GHz SSID to improve internet speed where coverage is poor. Also, place Wi-Fi router such a place from where maximum area can be covered of your home, e.g. passage area between rooms etc.
If you facing connection issue with certain the Wi-Fi network, the same can be solved by forgetting the network and reconnecting them again.
How to increase internet speed on cellular data in Android mobile
On your android smartphones, you can check the network strength in the mobile settings itself. To check, go to the settings, and in the about section check the phone signal strength sim wise. That will be shown something like that -68 dBm, 15 ASU. Where the number in dBm shown the signal strength, how much it is less in minus strength is better for example -65 is better than -110.
So check if you have option to see which network in your area having better signal strength. You can switch to that network by porting the number, if having dual sim you can use better strength sim for data also for better network speed.
If you are not sure which network is providing better network speed, you can download speedtest app o your mobile. Using speed test app you can check internet speed of any network whether it is Wi-Fi or cellular data network.
By changing the network from 3G to 4G or vice versa
4G or LTE network is always having better internet speed compared to 3G network. However, it is not always true, because 4G coverage is poor with compared to 3G. You can switch to 4G to 3G network using mobile settings and check internet speed using speed test app. It may be possible certain area you will get better voice and internet speed on 3G compared to 4G. However, Jio sim only works on 4G; therefore changing 4G to 3G will stop the services in Jio networks.
Other tips for How to increase internet speed in Android Mobile
Improve the internet speed by clearing cache of your mobile browser and system
By time being, a lot of cache has been stored in browsers that may slow down the internet speed. Although this cache helping to fast loading of website that you use frequently but can also slow down browser performance and also slowdown internet speed. For clearing of browser cache, go to settings of browser, e.g. in chrome browser go to settings, privacy, thereafter clear cache.
Also clear cache of your smartphone system memory, this will not only increase the internet speed but also make your android phone faster. This can be done using some junk clearing apps like clean master, using setting itself, in the settings of Android mobile, go to storage and from there choose to clear cache.
If you are not finding the way to clear system cache, this can be cleared using phone recovery menu. You should be careful to clear cache using phone recovery, otherwise your phone’s all data can also be deleted if you have chosen wrong option.
To reach phone recovery, first switch off the phone and wait for 20-30 seconds. Now turn on phone using pressing volume down button and power button simultaneously. In the recovery menu, enter the password if asked, and choose the wipe cache option. In the recovery, menu options can navigated using touch or by volume up / down button. Select the desired option using power button or touch.
Using light browsers
You can use some of the light browser e.g. Opera mini, UC browser to access internet, these browser works fine even on very slow internet speed, and data friendly.
Using ad blocker apps
Pop Ads on your browser and apps also consume lot of data, and slow down phone browsing speed. You can use some of the ad blocker apps available on play store to block them. Ad blocker browser are also useful to increase internet speed on android phone.
Uninstall the less used apps
Some apps always consuming data in background, you can uninstall them. However, in the settings of android you have option to disable data for particular apps so that they will not consume data in background.
Using data boosting apps
Data booting apps increase the speed of Android phone by improving system processes. These apps cleared the RAM, also close background apps and providing good internet speed by optimizing browser performance.
Conclusion
Internet speed cannot be changed as provided by ISP or cellular network. But there are some tips and various options as explained in this post by using you can see how to increase internet speed in Android Mobile. Hope these tips will be helpful to optimize android mobile browsing experience.