Thread: Do advise me regarding speed and modem

HI
actually i am using tatadial up for almost 2 years with night unlimited {10pm - 06am] and i get speed of 15kBps for downloading this is a good plan in tems of money as it cost me only 370 rs for a month with free calls worth re 200.
it was a complementary plan and not available now. now i want to go for bsnl 500 combo plan and quit this plan so i wnt to know first of all speed i cheked here some says getting speed of 125kBps -150KBPS and some says getting speed of 10kbps -18kbps in home 500 what is the speed i can expct and the modem which one will be best typ 1 or typ2.

Internet speed is not always same and not fixed..

( surfing a web site/ downloading a file/ torrent downloads/ time of day
contention ratio (meaning how many others are using same server at the same time) etc )
You can expect in Home plans 250 / 500 speed upto 2 Mbps
usually you get .5Mbps to 1.5Mbps.

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For details of tariff plans :
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.

To select a modem.

If you use a laptop , or more than one desktop
Type IV recommended. ( for 4desktops lan port /laptops WIFI)
BSNL BROADBAND MAIN MENU

On an average, Home 500 plans (promising speeds up to 2 mbps or 256 kBps), most people manage to get between 1.5 to 1.8 mbps.

thanx for reply i know what you said about diff factors time traffic etc but i want to know that how much minimum speed i can expct between 2 to 8am as in this period i want to do my downloading with dial up i do it from 10pm to 5am free time and in this period i merely download 200mb with speed 10 to 14kbps so just want to know that if i go for bb 500 will it help me in the downloading senario i know that it is enough the free 1.5 gb free for my surfing. and sorry i mis typed i want to connect to my pc so i want to know about type 1 and type 3 modem. which one is good.

Using µTorrent I get approximately 200 to 230 kBps speed. This is satisfactory.

have u ever tried speed on other p2p not torrent one p2p like arse limewire etc and direct download.

Originally Posted by shubham3786

have u ever tried speed on other p2p not torrent one p2p like arse limewire etc and direct download.

I never tried p2p but direct download gives me upto 200 kBps speed. It is always different depending on the servers from where I download. From Rapidshare free download I get 50 to 60 kBps.

is it from the first or u did some kinda trick i mean every body here talk about tricks and settings for server modem router etc. i am from up when i went to bsnl local office and ask about the speed the bsnl guy show me downloading speed of 260kBps on his computer at bsnl office and told me that this is homecombo plan speed and u will also get this speed becoz of that i am a little bit confused that it is natural or one have to do some trick to get the good speed

for torrents yes , you need to open ports and there are tweaks for utorrent as well.. not sure how effectivre they are thoguh.. although opening ports does help

Opening the port is the main trick.

The rest are tweaks that will only marginally improve speed.

Originally Posted by shubham3786

minimum speed i can expct between 2 to 8am as in this period i want to do my downloading with dial up i do it from 10pm to 5am free time and in this period i merely download 200mb with speed 10 to 14kbps so just want to know that if i go for bb 500 will it help me in the downloading senario .

I have used till Now Nokia Siemens C2210,Dlink GLB 502T and Iball iBLR6111A routers and getting same kind of downloads for last 1 year.Please don't go for Dlink GLB 502T.It gave me enough trouble.Download also depends upon Seeds and peers of a torrent file.So selecting a proper torrent file is also important.I Use utorrent for my downloads.Please see my downloads for a particular day between 2 A.M to 8 A.M. with Home 500C-

thank a lot gays oh sorry guys.
now tel me about ip add when i donload from repid shar free i disconnect and re connect my connection for changing my ip add is it also possible in bsnl bb or i will stick to a peculiar same ip

I have bsnl 750 unlimited plan (256 kbs speed) and Netgear DG834G modem.
With the modem bsnl provided my speed was 256 kb and in speed tests it was showing that. And I got constant disconnections. Now it goes up a few kbs (see picture 1) and when I get disconnected it's because of the server. A good modem helps too. (the ones provided by bsnl are bad)
But still.... when it worked, I could get 280 kbs down/ upload speed with a good torrent (I'm using Transmission).
Test your bandwidth speed, there are a lot of sites where you can do this.

A good torrent depends on many things: seeders/leechers, average speed of the torrent, good connection with the tracker.

You need to maximize your upload speed too. See picture 2 (this is from the help section of Transmission help). These are general rules for all torrent programs. There has to be some speed left for the torrent to 'communicate' with the tracker.
I could set the download speed on unlimited and it can get high peaks of even 350 kbs, but then it drops to 80 or something. It goes up and down constantly. My experience is that a steady speed it the fastest way to download. My settings with my old modem: max down 28/ max up 22.
New modem: max down 30/ max up 24. Works good. In perfect circumstances my speed is a steady 300 kbs with my new modem. (old: 280) Just like I set it in the program pref.

UTorrent is a good program, you just need to get the settings right. (google for it) I'm using Transmission because it's the best for my OS. UTorrent is (what I read and heard) the best for Windows.

In the Netgear I can forward my port and it was open for a few hours, but got stealth again...? I don't understand, but I really don't care anymore (It gave me a headache and I couldn't solve it. It's a problem well known in Transmission), because it's working well.

I have changed my DNS servers in open DNS (you can do this in the modem).
I'm using:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
It makes the connection a bit faster and more reliable.

About IP:
Bsnl uses dynamic IP. It changes every time you disconnect. As far as I know it's not possible to get a static IP. A dynamic or static one doesn't influence your speed or connection.

Hope all this helps you too.

thanks buddy but i dont have bb yet will apply today

by the way guys would like to if there for bb need some special requirment in the computer. what is ethernet card i dont know any thing about it and tell me how to check if my pc have one

Originally Posted by shubham3786

thanks buddy but i dont have bb yet will apply today

by the way guys would like to if there for bb need some special requirment in the computer. what is ethernet card i dont know any thing about it and tell me how to check if my pc have one

Every machine has one so rest assured that your computer has got one as well.. thats where you plug in the ethernet cable and it looked like the phone jack but a bit larger in size.

oh thanks a lot sir

i checked my mother board there is no port for rj45 cable i opened the cover and checked it there is no port actually the motherboard iam using rightnow is a replaced one my previous motherboard had one but not this one now what i have to do.

Originally Posted by Admin

Every machine has one so rest assured that your computer has got one as well.. thats where you plug in the Ethernet cable and it looked like the phone jack but a bit larger in size.

Not all PCs have on-board Ethernet card. For my own PC I had to buy external LAN Card to use with bsnl broadband as I did not want to use USB connection. It costs Rs. 125 approximately and you can get it in any shop.

i think i can safely say that ALL of the new motherboards have a LAN card.. i maybe wrong !! How old is your motherboard?

Intel D865GBF
6 years old