How To Speed Up your BroadBand Speed?

How To Speed Up your BroadBand Speed? I just found this article, which discusses important tips to significantly speed up your internet access through BSNL Dataone broadband connection, as well as many other broadband connections like Reliance, Tata Indicom, or Sify Broadband.

Setting DNS For Your Connection
One of the major problems with BSNL Dataone Broadband connection is the DNS servers they provide by default. They are usually 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 longer than the time it takes to get the response. Here is a simple solution to significantly speed up your DNS resolution.

Speed Up your BroadBand Speed

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.

Saving your Bandwidth

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

Setting TCP Parameters

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.