If you have an usb dongle that you plug into a usb port in your computer and use it to access internet, performance wise it will not outperform a home broadband connection. The reason why is because a dongle receives a internet connection through a network operator transmitter, home broadband receives a internet connection directly through a wire. A wireless connection is not as fast and reliable as a wired connection, and that is a fact that will never change. If you have a usb dongle internet modem, there is a few tweaks you can do to increase the uploading, downloading speed and reduce ping timing, they are just listed below:
1)Make sure you usb dongle is in a usb port that supports 2.0, not 1.1. 1.1 is an older type of technology and is very slow, which as a result can reflect on the performance of the usb internet modem.
2)Use Mozilla Firefox instead off Internet Explorer because it runs much quicker.
3)Clear the internet cookies, cache and internet history on a regular basis.
4)Most usb internet dongles allow you a option to search for a network provider manually, instead of the modem searching for it automatically. Making your dongle search for a network provider manually, will make the dongle locate the closet transmitter around the surroundings of the usb dongle. The closer the usb modem is to the netwrok transmitter, the more uploading, downloading speed your internet connection is going to receive and there also will be less ping time. The reason why is because the usb dongle is closer to the phone mast, which helps your usb internet dongle to pick up more signal.
5)If you are in a building using your usb dongle as a source of internet access, you will get poor network coverage because there are loads of brick walls, which block incoming signal. So try pointing the dongle towards a window because radio waves can easily pass through a window, if compared to a brick wall.
6)Place your usb internet dongle in a high location, the more higher it is placed the more signal it can receive.
