Mobile Broadband Connections
The service providers for mobile broadband networks are striving to ensure you do not have an unproductive day because you are on the road traveling. They want you to have just as many of the assets while you are traveling as you do at your home or office computer. You can connect to the Internet with something as simple as plugging a card into your laptop computer or just hitting a button on your cell phone or Pocket PC. With all the ways we rely on the Internet connection in business, productivity can come to a screeching halt when you don’t have access to the Internet. There are some insurance companies who have document and increase of productivity of 25% in the number of claims processed per day by using a mobile broadband Internet connection.
Each service provider uses a different network as a way for you to connect to the Internet. Your connection is important, there is nothing more frustrating than loosing your connection when you are in the middle of something. It doesn’t matter if you are checking email or accessing files you need to look over one more time before you meeting with a client.
A slow connection can be almost as frustrating as loosing a connection. There are several companies, which offer a web accelerator service, which was created for mobile broadband connection and broadband connection. Google is among those companies offering a web accelerator for broadband connections.
There are also ways to test and to optimize the speed of your Internet connection. These tests are from dslreports.com. They include:
- The 24/7 Monitoring test – This test will ping your IP address every 10 minutes and record each ping. You will have access to the ping and packet loss graphs of your downtime by email weekly reports. You will be able to download the data to your PC for analysis.
- Wake your PC remotely – You will be able to wake your PC from a different location
- More Speed Tests – This test will allow you to test your download and upload speeds. There are five different tests you can use to accomplish this.
- Tweak Test – will allow you to test your download and upload speeds. There are five different tests you can use to accomplish this.
If your computer is running slower than normal it could be because of pop-ups, which are not being blocked. It could also be caused by spam and other times it could be your are using the Internet during peak hours. If you feel the speed of your computer is too slow because of connection you may want to check out a web accelerator such as the Google web accelerator.
Google offers a free web accelerator, which will send your broadband connection in to hyper speed. It does this by compressing the Web page you are requesting from Google’s servers. This saves the Internet user around three hours of loading time in a month.
