If you have dial-up, or a satellite connection to the internet, you probably suffer from latency issues. That is – any page with lots of imagery and text takes forever to load. Loading Internet Explorer and going straight to MSN.com or Yahoo.com usually takes several seconds to complete.

Here’s a tip: Try using Google as your home page.

Google is engineered to load in a split second. Seriously, just try it!

The page code is actually optimised for slower connections. Besides it being incredibly fast to load, it’s also a great starting point for your internet needs. Whatever you need, Google probably has it.

(Alternatively, you can set your homepage to about:blank to load a blank page.)

While you’re at it, you could even try Google’s new browser Chrome. That’s super fast too.