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3 Tips To Significantly Speed Up BSNL Dataone Broadband Connection

December 17th, 2006 by Angsuman Chakraborty

In this article I will discuss 3 important tips to significantly speed up your internet access through BSNL Dataone broadband connection.

Tip 1: One of the major problems with BSNL Dataone Broadband connection is the DNS servers they provide by default. Most of the time they are very slow and sometimes they fail to respond. I noticed that I am starting to spend a significant amount of time in DNS resolution with Dataone connection, often it is larger than the time it takes to actually get the reponse. Here is a simple solution to significantly speed up your DNS resolution.

Open up the network connection profile and edit TCP/IP settings. In the DNS server address fields, specify the following DNS server addresses: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
Disconnect the connection and then connect again. You are done.

This specifies third party DNS servers which are significantly faster than BSNL Dataone’s DNS servers.

Note: The service is provided by OpenDNS.

Tip 2: Firefox users can use FlashBlock extension to prevent downloading of Flash content by default, thereby significantly speeding up browsing experience. You can click on the placeholder icon to display the original Flash content any time. This is more of a passive tip in that reduces data usage to improve your overall experience.

Tip 3: You can try to increase your broadband bandwidth tweaking the TCP/IP parameters. The process is simplified by using TCPOptimizer, a free tool. It helped me, your mileage may vary.


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18 Responses to “3 Tips To Significantly Speed Up BSNL Dataone Broadband Connection”

  1. Sreejesh Says:

    Hi
    I am using win98. After opening networks,tcp/ip I can see that there is a dns gateway as well as dns configuration. where do i enter the dns server address. Please help.

    Thanks
    Sreejesh

  2. siki Says:

    start>settings>network connection>local area connection(”which is active”)>right click on its properties>click once on ttcp/ip>click properties>
    change dns ip there click manual

  3. belwin Says:

    while browsing using BSNL Broadband connection.
    i receive a error message “Generic host win32 application error” and the connection will become useless until i restart my system. please guide me in this regard

  4. Riju Says:

    After getting installed the internet,i browsed for 2 hrs.then i shutdown the system and restarted the internet.it got connected.But web page is not displaying.In Internet Explorer,”page is unavailable” message is coming.In Firefox,”can’t be connected to the site” message is coming.

  5. lam3r Says:

    Still using Winblows Crap?. Use Unix

  6. Nikhil Says:

    Very useful! Thanks a ton!

  7. vikram Says:

    Can I have 2 dataone braodband accounts of different plans on 1 pc (home
    plan and business plan).

    I have 2 accounts 1 for my shop and other for my home. I checked my
    business plan it on my home pc and its not possible to connect the business
    plan on my home pc.

    When i was using Dailup networking i used to connect any number of dailup
    accounts on my PC.

  8. viji Says:

    I have a home 250 scheme .1 gb is usually sufficient but sometimes the readings indicate excess use even though i have not used it.The lan connection at that time shows bytes being sent even though the net is not connected.Even after formatting the computer, this goes on .Why?

    viji

  9. mrinal Says:

    hi,
    i’m tired of using windows. trying linux. can someone please tell me how to connect to dataone broadband using knoppix (live-CD version of linux)
    thanx in advance
    mrinal

  10. Lalit nagrath Says:

    ya tcp optimiser s good for WINDOze connections

    thanks for tips

  11. Rajib Says:

    while i am browsing using BSNL Broadband connection.
    i receive a error message “Generic host win32 application error” and the connection will become useless until i restart my system. please guide me in this regard

  12. sunil Says:

    while browsing using BSNL Broadband connection.
    i receive a error message “Generic host win32 application error” and the connection will become useless until i restart my system. please guide me in this regard

  13. Suresh Says:

    I Applied for BSNL Broadband 15 days back but still the connection is not given i stay in Pollachi near Coimbatore TN, when i call the Commercial Officer he says with pride that it will take 15 days, thats the same answer he gave me whil applying too, again he said 15 days, when we ask why he is never ready to tell the reason, i suggest that the Govt. should handover BSNL to some private service provider, since there is no Customer Service this wont work out, morover everyone are money minded, bribe for installation, processing everything, why do we need to go BSNL if there were someone else here, i suggest that Airtel VSNL, Reliance should come in to Pollachi, BSNL is good, but govt. officials always the same

  14. lalitnagrath Says:

    @rajib nd sunil

    you need a patch of windows file

  15. Venkatesh Says:

    Not really Suresh, I was having the experience the other way round. 3 weeks back I went to the BSNL office for submitting the application and they told me that it takes about 7 days for people to come and install the modem in my house. After one week, there was no response and I went once again and told them and the BSNL authorities were very cordial; and they immediately asked my phone no. and they phoned the concerned BSNL office of my region and got them connected.. So it does not make any sense blaming the BSNL officials.

  16. Abhishek Says:

    Thanks a Ton!!

  17. pankaj solapure Says:

    detail knowledge of router ,server updates

  18. Sumit Says:

    just fuck off………… use Airtel DSL and get downloading speed up to 1 MBPS still usin mtnl then u r a moroan

  19. Akhil Says:

    thanx for these tips….

    @Sumit
    Airtel’s broadband is still nt available in all the areas……

    n moreover…u’ll be happy to know…dat i get speeds arnd 1200 kbps (more than 1 Mbps) using Limewire (with port forwarding from a T3 peer and browsing the web at the same time)

    I know BSNL sucks but speed is not an issue
    its on d user to optimise it

    the maximum speed of the connection being 2 Mbps

  20. Nagarjuna Says:

    hello,
    iam using win98se ,i have taken bsnl dataone boardband connection how i want to enable the connetion using ethernet

Looking forward to hear your thoughts.



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