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Speed up your BSNL Broadband connection

Rosario — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:14:14 +0000

Open DNS is most accepted DNS and its performance is more good when compared to others. Also is any spelling mistakes in the domain names or urls, Open dns will display similar possibilities. If you feel that the broadband connection you are using is often getting disconnected and it takes time to reconfigure, or if you feel that the dns service is slow switch to Open DNS. You can do this by changing the Primary and Secodary DNS in your network settings in your Operating system. But, you will have to do this changes in the network setting, when ever you reconnect the internet. If you feel to permanently change it, login to the adsl router and change it. How to do this,

Check whether your ADSL modem is connected to your computer, and check whether the lan is established. Now open a new browser, enter the ip, 192.168.1.1 (router ip) in the address bar. Enter the user name and password (default username and password is admin, admin). The ADSL router setup page will appear, in that click Interface Setup-> LAN and then in the DHCP section change Primary and Secondary DNS to the following Open DNS IPs

208.67.222.222

208.67.220.220

And feel the difference…

Accessing my Dataone with my Laptop Wireless

Rosario — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:07:27 +0000

Me accessing my DataOne broad band wireless in my hardy(ubuntu 8.04). For the post two year Iam using Dataone.. But I was not sure whether the wireless port in my modem was Input port or Output port. I tried connecting my Lap after purching my Lap. I didnt know exactly what mode to use in my admin setup page for accessing… I was randomly trying one after the other.. And got it at last.

My Interface Setup in my admin page is in PPoA/PPoE mode, with the username and pasword defined in the router setup page itself. And my Cute hardy scans for the Wireless Lan and connects automatically leaving me no work now a days. My Hardy is always cute, When my boot process is over Iam ready to surf my Net, provided my Dataone modem is ON.

Problem when using wvdial

Rosario — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:34:13 +0000

When using wvdial for connecting to Internet through a Airtel gprs, with a gprs enabled mobile, if the wvdial program continuously tries connecting and fails …. Add the following line in the /etc/wvdial.conf file

Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1,””,”airtelgprs.com”

where airtelgprs.com is the accesspoint of Airtel

Hence the etc/wvidal.conf will look like

[Dialer Defaults]
Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1,””,”airtelgprs.com”
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Modem Type = USB Modem
ISDN = 0
New PPPD = yes
Phone = *99***1#
Modem = /dev/ttyACM0
Username = ” “
Password = ” “
Baud = 460800

Connecting to Internet through Airtel GPRS

Rosario — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:32:33 +0000

For connecting to Internet through Airtel GPRS, proceed the following steps

Step 1: use the command wvdialconf to configure the modem

wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf

step 2: If the previous step is sucessfull, the model of mobile will be displayed…

Edit the file /etc/wvdial.conf to change the following lines to (remove the semicolons in front)

Phone = *99***1#
Username = ” “
Password = ” ”

This dialup number works only for Airtel India. May differ accordingly for other opperators.

step 3: use wvdial command to connect

wvdial /etc/wvdial.conf

This will connect giving the Primary DNS, Secondary DNS, Local IP, Remote IP, if successful.

Enjoy Surfing.. This same procedure is to be followed even for connecting through any other dialups, using internal or external modem in the PC