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 / most other BroadBand connections like Reliance
or 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. 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.

Saving your Bandwidth
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.

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.