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.
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 a
lot but your mileage may
vary.
Also, there's nice little
tweak for XP. Microsoft
reserve 20% of your
available bandwidth for
their own purposes. This
also affects your
Broadband peformance.
You can get back this
20% as follows:
Click Start-->Run-->type
"gpedit.msc" without the
"
This opens the group
policy editor. Then go to:
Local Computer Policy--
>Computer
Configuration--
>Administrative
Templates-->Network--
>QOS Packet Scheduler-->
Limit Reservable
Bandwidth
Double click on Limit
Reservable bandwidth. It
will say it is not
configured, but the truth
is under the 'Explain' tab :
"By default, the Packet
Scheduler limits the
system to 20 percent of
the bandwidth of a
connection, but you can
use this
setting to override the
default."
So the trick is to ENABLE
reservable bandwidth,
then set it to ZERO.
This will allow the
system to reserve
nothing, rather than the
default 2
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.
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 a
lot but your mileage may
vary.
Also, there's nice little
tweak for XP. Microsoft
reserve 20% of your
available bandwidth for
their own purposes. This
also affects your
Broadband peformance.
You can get back this
20% as follows:
Click Start-->Run-->type
"gpedit.msc" without the
"
This opens the group
policy editor. Then go to:
Local Computer Policy--
>Computer
Configuration--
>Administrative
Templates-->Network--
>QOS Packet Scheduler-->
Limit Reservable
Bandwidth
Double click on Limit
Reservable bandwidth. It
will say it is not
configured, but the truth
is under the 'Explain' tab :
"By default, the Packet
Scheduler limits the
system to 20 percent of
the bandwidth of a
connection, but you can
use this
setting to override the
default."
So the trick is to ENABLE
reservable bandwidth,
then set it to ZERO.
This will allow the
system to reserve
nothing, rather than the
default 2
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