BSNL DATAONE TIPS AND TRICKS

Check your BSNL dataone bandwidth usage SIMPLE DATAONE BANDWIDTH USER FINDER VER 1.4 BETA. It is downloadable from Dataone Usage Finder. The latest version will provide you the bill details too.


Another tip to save bandwidth (not only BSNL broadband)
Use a GOOD Anti Virus

But how can anti virus help me to save bandwidth?
Most of the modern day virus and trojans are capable of auto-updating themselves. There are also similat malicious programs which send out data packets without your knowledge. And this will increase the bandwidth usgae and will give you a huge bill. This is where a good anti virus can help. Unfortunately, most of the anti-viruses available today are costly and are not affordable for common man in India. But, we have many good anti virus softwares which are available for free. And, they are as good as the paid ones and some outperforms the paid counterparts.

Here is a list of some free anti virus softwares.
Avast!-The Best one (We reccomend this one)

AVG

Anti-vir



And never use two anti-virus softwares simulatenously. Doing so will not help you much and also they eat up a lot of system resources. Though you can use anti-spywares along with it. And we reccomend to use ananti-spyware along with the anti virus software.

Here is a list of some FREE anti-spyware softwares.

Spybot S&D

Ad-Aware



So, install these, and update to latest definitions, do a complete system scan. Remove all those infections and notice the change in bandwidth usage and download / upload speed.




Configuring BSNL Dataone on SmartAX MT882 ADSL Router
This tutorial will help you to configure, SmartAX MT882 for manual dial....and the advantages??...more flexibility over the connection...

1) Select TCP/IP properties and enter as follows

set ip Address As 192.168.1.29
Subnet Maswk As 255.255.255.0
Default Gategay As 192.168.1.1
Prefferd DNS 61.1.96.69
Alternet DNS 61.1.96.71

2) Save settings and restart the computer.
3) Open your browser (preferably Internet Explorer ) and goto http://192.168.1.1/
4) Input as follows
USERNAME: admin
PASSOWRD: admin
5) Now goto Home->WAN Settings and there,

PVC Number - PVC-0
Wan Type - RFC2684Bridged
VPI/VCI - 0/35
Encap. - LLC

Apply and restart the modem.

6) Now goto Control Panel-->Network Connections
7) Create New connection-->(and a wizard will pop up) Next-->Connect to Internet(Select the radio button and click next)-->Setup My connection Manually(select it and click next)-->Connect using a broadband connection that requires a user name and password (select it and click next)-->ISP name (type something, anything and click next)-->Type in the Username and password given to you in the specified coloumns also select the other options if you want to (and click next)-->If you want to add a shortcut of connection to desktop, check that square box and click finish.

Diouble Click the Icon in the desktop to connect to the BSNL Dataone broadband connection, and either double click the same icon or right click the system tray icon to disconnect from BSNL Dataone broadband connection