BSNL 3G night speeds pathetic...advice needed.

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dovakhiin

dovakhiin

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guys,
I've been using a bsnl 3G datacard with 1GB day+ 5GB night prepaid plan.The day speeds are pretty good(2mbps+).But in the night a lot of people in our hostel connect and start downloading bringing the speeds to as low as 100-200kbps.:@
This is because the bandwidth is shared among a lot of users on a single tower and our hostel has a lot of wireless broadband users.:P
There is probably nothing I can do about this but I would appreciate it someone had advice on how to get as much bandwidth as possible in the night.Any tweaks or settings to try and hog more bandwidth and try to get the best speed for my torrent downloads.

The signal quality shows 4 bars in the datacard software,is that good?.Will it help if I used an antenna?
 
Start a torrent from any popular public tracker, wait for half hr and almost everyone wud hav disconnected due to slow speeds :P

Nothing leeches bandwidth like a good torrent client!!
 
I would avoid torrents on wireless. Simply direct downloads on idm will hog away all the bandwidth available.
I used to do this in my college during project days. The lab had 2mbps leased line. And i would add 4 simultaneous downloads.
Then others in lab would just stop surfing and start CS on lan.
This way i got avg speeds of 245 KB/sec during lab time while i was playing CS in lab. ;)
 
I second what ggt said. IDM will suck the bandwidth like anything and all others will be :@:@

Happy downloading :)

Even FDM will work similarly.
 
^Yes, IDM is a killer app too, i used it to download shit at NIIT, and the whole network used to come crashing down thanks to their stupid networking..
 
^ yes our professor used to do rounds suspecting why speeds are becoming less.:S then all he would try to do was reset the switch(lan). in the frustration he even replaced the lan switch thinking it to be faulty. still nothing improved for him. :ohyeah:
he went to the extent of checking the electrical wiring if proper earthing was available to the switch. :bleh:
 
ggt said:
^ yes our professor used to do rounds suspecting why speeds are becoming less.:S then all he would try to do was reset the switch(lan). in the frustration he even replaced the lan switch thinking it to be faulty. still nothing improved for him. :ohyeah:

he went to the extent of checking the electrical wiring if proper earthing was available to the switch. :bleh:
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Lol,That's Funny. :p
 
ggt said:
^ yes our professor used to do rounds suspecting why speeds are becoming less.:S then all he would try to do was reset the switch(lan). in the frustration he even replaced the lan switch thinking it to be faulty. still nothing improved for him. :ohyeah:

he went to the extent of checking the electrical wiring if proper earthing was available to the switch. :bleh:
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WE used to hide the window using window hiding apps, using hot keys to hide or show the window..Few of the prof's were intelligent too, the cat and mouse game was awesome fun!!
 
that's exactly what I told to the nfsnfs, BSNL 3g is like BSNL EVDO. As the user increases,so the speed will decrease. The ppl who can use bsnl 3g in its early stage really benefits from BSNL 3g, later it will give slow speeds. And therefore i suggest to buy device having external antenna port in their wireless device.

@nukem, try to have maximum signal strength... the closer the user to the tower the more speed he will get. It's funny that u getting low speeds in night as everybody here gets increased 3g speed in night.
 
thanks guys..

I've been meddling with torrent settings to make it run faster but I dont see any real change in bandwidth.I was hoping there is a tweak or something to make the datacard get more from the shared bandwidth,i guess there isn't.
 
How much speed can be expected with torrents ? Being wireless wont there be slower acks movement thereby resulting in lower speed at the client end ?
 
nuke'em said:
thanks guys..

I've been meddling with torrent settings to make it run faster but I dont see any real change in bandwidth.I was hoping there is a tweak or something to make the datacard get more from the shared bandwidth,i guess there isn't.
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Then probably the bandwidth sharing is decided by the server and not as per use, as in if 1mbps is total speed, and 4users r there, then per user server will give 256kbps, even if one of the user is sitting idle..
 
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