vipinonline.com

You can improve the performance of your existing Internet connection by applying these tweaks:

1 – Tweak Win XP TCP connection limit http://tinyurl.com/4bccwp
2 – Install cFos Traffic Shaping software
3 – Use OpenDNS, usually faster than ISP’s DNS http://tinyurl.com/ns48wa

Nowadays there are so many free DNS providers like the OpenDNS we discussed in the previous post

The best DNS server at one place may not be performing well at your region. It’s easy to check for the faster one for your connection. If you are on

• Windows, go to command prompt(Start->Run>type “cmd” without quotes)
• Linux users fire up a terminal

 

and issue this command

ping <DNS server address> eg: ping 208.67.220.220 (Open DNS)

The DNS address with less Round Trip Average(RTA) is the best for you.

For example:

With OpenDNS

C:\Documents and Settings\Vipin George>ping 208.67.220.220

Pinging 208.67.220.220 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 208.67.220.220: bytes=32 time=331ms TTL=43
Reply from 208.67.220.220: bytes=32 time=330ms TTL=43
Reply from 208.67.220.220: bytes=32 time=331ms TTL=43
Reply from 208.67.220.220: bytes=32 time=334ms TTL=43

Ping statistics for 208.67.220.220:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 330ms, Maximum = 334ms, Average = 331ms

With DNSAdvantage

C:\Documents and Settings\Vipin George>ping 156.154.70.1

Pinging 156.154.70.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 156.154.70.1: bytes=32 time=247ms TTL=48
Reply from 156.154.70.1: bytes=32 time=249ms TTL=48
Reply from 156.154.70.1: bytes=32 time=252ms TTL=48
Reply from 156.154.70.1: bytes=32 time=250ms TTL=48

Ping statistics for 156.154.70.1:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 247ms, Maximum = 252ms, Average = 249ms

Here DNSAdvantage is the winner. It may vary at your place depending on ISP, traffic etc.

In my next post I shall post a list free DNS servers so that you can have the best browsing experience.

Possibly Related Posts:

• Free Online Clipboard with security: CL1P.net
• Few invites left for Diaspora, the open source “Facebook killer”
• Yahoo Shutting Down Delicious, Buzz, Other Services : It’s time to backup your bookmarks
• Recover your Gmail and Orkut accounts from Bom Sabado attack
• ICANN explores the possibility of full-fledged use of domain names in all 22 official languages in India

Three months free incoming video calls to all 2G subscribers who have 3G handsets

BSNL, the largest telecommunications provider and public agency in India, has announced this offer. Free Video incoming calls is allowed to all 2G subscribers who have 3G handsets for a promotional period of 3 months from 18.05.2009 or date of launch of 3G service, whichever is latter.

After all it’s free for three months. Don’t miss it.

Source : BSNL Website

Possibly Related Posts:

• Hamsphere: Virtual Ham Radio transceiver on your PC
• Free Online Clipboard with security: CL1P.net
• Few invites left for Diaspora, the open source “Facebook killer”
• ICANN explores the possibility of full-fledged use of domain names in all 22 official languages in India
• Wolfram Alpha : The Computational Search Engine

BSNL Dataone Happy Hours, Free downloads

Schedule your downloads and have a sound sleep

Here we are using a telnet script to reboot the modem at 2.10am so that BSNL counts it as the usage in free hours.

Download the modemreboot script zip package. It contains all the necessary files.

Edit reboot.txt with ur password.
eg:
If ur password is abc123

SEND “abc123\m”

—————————————————————————————————————————–
By default MT841 pass,is admin.If you haven’t changed it manually it works out of the box, else edit “reboot.txt” with your “Password”.

192.168.1.1
WAIT “Login”
SEND “admin\m”
WAIT “Password”
SEND “admin\m”
WAIT “>”
SEND “system restart\m”
WAIT “>”
SEND “User logout\m”
—————————————————————————————————————————–
Use windows Task scheduler to run this reboot.bat at 2.10am,click on properties for this task–>Settings & give a check on Wake this computer to run this task.After that you may schedule your favourite Download program or torrent clients like µTorrent to be started at 2.13am.At night you may leave system on standby/Hibernation(better for Notebooks with APM).

—————————————————————————————————————————–

WARNING:You must check the reboot.bat file by double clicking it,to make sure that MODEM is getting REBOOTED & firewall allows it.(If it’s Zone Alarm click on ‘Always allow’).

Copyrighted under Creative commons license

Possibly Related Posts:

• Free Online Clipboard with security: CL1P.net
• Few invites left for Diaspora, the open source “Facebook killer”
• Yahoo Shutting Down Delicious, Buzz, Other Services : It’s time to backup your bookmarks
• Recover your Gmail and Orkut accounts from Bom Sabado attack
• ICANN explores the possibility of full-fledged use of domain names in all 22 official languages in India