But sometimes your upload speed slows down for seemingly no reason. If you’re experiencing slow upload speeds then it will take you exponentially longer to upload, manage, and analyze all of your documents.

In this article, we will help teach why your ability to upload documents is slowing down. We’ll also teach you how to improve upload speeds.

How To Increase Upload Speeds

Here are six steps you can take to improve your upload speeds.

1. Check Your Router’s Firmware

Firmware gets updated every now and then. Eventually, companies stop supporting old firmware. It’s a good idea to check your router’s firmware every once in a while to make sure it’s up-to-date. It’s easier to pick one day during the year to go around and make sure all of your company’s firmware is properly updated. However you decide to schedule maintenance, just make sure everything is working at its optimal capacity.

2. Update Drivers

Drivers can experience the same shortcomings as your router’s firmware. When your printer and scanner drivers aren’t up-to-date you can experience a major slowing in upload speeds. Check all of your hardware drivers to make sure nothing needs to be updated. Nothing will be ruined if you miss an update every once in a while. But that out of date software will start to add up if you’re missing multiple updates on multiple drivers.

3. Clean Everything

Computers get bogged down over time. Cookies, malware, and old documents all contribute to the slowing down of your company’s technology infrastructure. Along with updating your router’s firmware and updating your hardware’s drivers, you should conduct an annual spring cleaning. Do a deep scan to remove any and all malware you’ve somehow picked up over the year. Remove all of your cookies. Delete old, useless files and consolidate your storage to make it easier for your computer to access data. Your objective is to clean up your computers as much as possible to prevent any digital deadweight from slowing down your upload speeds.

4. Check Your Connection

Have you ever had a problem with your smartphone where it was loading slowly? What did you do to fix it? Step number one should always be “check the wifi.” Sometimes you just have a bad wifi connection and a simple reconnect can fix the problem.

If that doesn’t work, then you should move on to step number two, restarting your phone.

Those two steps alone fix most phone-related problems. Your computers are no different. Sometimes wifi connections become weak and need to be restarted. Sometimes computers need to restart to fix a problem. If neither of those options work, try connecting with an ethernet cord. Most businesses use wifi connections instead of ethernet cables to access the internet. The fact is, wired connections are faster and more reliable than wifi connections are.

5. Use Zonal OCR

It’s possible that certain programs can help speed up your uploads. For example, Zonal OCR software can help your scanner rapidly upload files and tag the data for you. OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. Zonal OCR is programmed to recognize specific areas of your documents, read them, and record the information on them. With eFileCabinet’s Zonal OCR software, you can upload and search your documents faster than you could manually.

6. Update Old Tech

Sometimes, your hardware is just old and out-of-date. Nobody wants to buy a new scanner or a new computer, but that’s what needs to happen sometimes. There’s an oft-repeated saying in the world of business, “Sometimes you have to spend money to make money.” If all of your equipment is working the way it’s supposed to, and the drivers are up-to-date, and the connections are strong, but your upload speeds are still slow, that’s a sign that it’s time to upgrade to newer, more powerful technologies that can do the work you need them to do.

At eFileCabinet, we’ve compiled a list of scanners which we recommend for companies that have to upload large numbers of documents. The list includes nine, powerful scanners and additional information for how to use your imaging software to enhance these scanners’ capabilities even further. If you need to use your scanner a lot, the right scanner will make or break your workflow. The average household scanner can only scan about four pages per minute, while a scanner like our Fujitsu fi-7180 can scan and route upwards of 60 pages per minute. Clearly, the Fujitsu fi-7180 will be much more efficient than an ordinary scanner from an electronics store.

eFileCabinet Can Help Make
Uploading Your Documents Faster

eFileCabinet has put 17 years of work into their advanced document management system. They have helped thousands of users learn to better handle their document filings. From small businesses to large enterprises, eFileCabinet can help you manage your company’s documents.