Speed up BSNL Data One Broad Band

BSNL – India’s number one Telecommunications Company. I am using UL 500 plan of BSNL. UL 500means Unlimited plan with monthly rental of 500 INR (taxes extra). It provides speed of 512kbps up to 4 Gb and then 256 Kbps, which is good surfing and medium downloads.

I will give you few details about how BSNL or any ISP (Internet service provider) calculate the speed of their connection:

The downloading speed of  256kbps connection will be 32KBps !!

Similarly for 512 kbps you will get around 56-64 kbps download speed. 

So if you are getting speed around 30-32KBps while downloading  for 256kbps plan then you are getting best for what you are paying. If you want any such conversions in broadband plans just divide the number by eight. i.e. 256/8 = 32.

Also 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.

Click here to know how to change DNS Adress.

More Free Public DNS Server

Service provider: Google

• 8.8.8.8
• 8.8.4.4

Service provider: ScrubIt
Public dns server address:

• 67.138.54.100
• 207.225.209.66

Service provider:dnsadvantage
Dnsadvantage free dns server list:

• 156.154.70.1
• 156.154.71.1

Service provider:OpenDNS
OpenDNS free dns server list:

• 208.67.222.222
• 208.67.220.220

Service provider: vnsc-pri.sys.gtei.net
Public Name server IP address:

• 4.2.2.1
• 4.2.2.2
• 4.2.2.3
• 4.2.2.4
• 4.2.2.5
• 4.2.2.6

Also 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.

Also 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.