Friday, December 14, 2007

Bit torrent and BSNL dataone

As per the statistics peer-to-peer constitute 52% of all the traffic on Internet. What is driving all this and how can a Home 500 dataone connection guy use maximum out of it?

1. You can download and install bit torrent. There are multiple other torrent and the most used and the smallest size torrent tool is utorrent, which is a stripped down version of the bit torrent.
2. In case you want to know more about the concept of torrent read from wikipedia.
3. Now in case you want to download some e-books or some other stuff, search " torrent".
4. download the torrent file and execute it with bit torrent and it starts downloading.
5. Follow the instruction in options->speed guide else download rates will be low especially the one regarding port forwarding.
6. There is a scheduler (cntrl+P), for home 500 uses schedule it for 0200 to 0800 AM. Pl note that you can get a speed of as high as 200KBps or 60MB per 5 min (or Rs 48/-)!! so in case your clock is not synchronized do it to the standard time. Else keep the corner points like 2 Am and 8 Am in limited download mode.
7. Keep more than 2-3 downloads in torrent at one time to maximize the downloads. Keep number of active downloads at 3.
8. Be altruistic to get good speed. If the seed and peer are in India then you can get a good speed else it depends, so dont get frustrated if you do not get the speed you had expected. I am able to get more than 100KBps with three downloads happening simultaneously.
9. In Parallel use FlashGet with flashgot as i had mentioned in my earlier blog to squeeze out all the maximum data rate.

I heard of some cribs that they are not getting good speed and in most of the case i found they had bought the DSL CPE themselves. I was involved in some way with the planning phase of broadband architecture in BSNL through my company. My advice never try to buy third party modem esp for BSNL. It may be ok for Bharti and others, so even if you have to pay slightly large buy CPE modem from BSNL.

Enjoy surfing.. Enjoy DataOne..

1 comment:

jishnua said...

there is nothing which bsnl does to restrict third party modem. But all the BSNL requirements are through some standard requirements specified by TEC( Telecom engg center) which does not specify all the corner cases which may happen when there are mismatch between DSLAM (the one at the BSNL end) and the DSL CPE (which you have at your end. This is really a remote chance but beware of this especially with BSNL.