Saturday, 19 February 2011

10 Tips to Avoid Frequent Disconnection Of BSNL Broadband

Bsnl Dataone broadband is one of the leading broadband internet service providers across india. They have good speed and connectivity even in rural areas. However they use the old land phone lines to provide broadband in homes. So if your landline got disconnected, you cant apply for broadband.



The wire communication has its own advantage s and disadvantages. In the case of Dataone broadband, the direct connection ADSL (asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop) gives good speed for internet but the ADSL requires noise free connection also. This requirement will fail to satisfy when there are noise affected areas in the communication Line.

The Noise affected phone line could cause broadband to disconnect frequently and you can see the ADSL indicating LED on the modem starts blinking when the connection is lost. Also interned LED will goes to red indicating the deviceis dialling up before obtaining IP address successfully by PPP. The internet may reconnect automatically but the chances of frequent disconnections are high.

This problem is mainly caused by the line problem. A BSNL employee could rectify the problem on the line and solve this problem. However if you want to ensure connectivity always, follow these hints.

1. Avoid Excess line joints - So many joints from DP box to your home connecting wire will cause noise to be affect the signal. So if your phone line have lots of joints Twined together, request a replace of phone cable in your local exchange.

2. Ensure you have the best SNR (signal to noise ratio) : Signal to noise ration is simply the figure indicating how much noise in your signal. More value is better, unit is in DB.

To check your SNR: point your web browser to http://192.168.1.1/
user name :admin
Password : admin

For a stable connection, you should have upstream and downstream SNR more than 6db. However this is not the recommended value, average of greater than 20Db is required to avoid frequent disconnections.

3. Check your phone for noise. If you can hear even small hiss or noise along with dial tone, then go straight with checking yor phone line.

4.Make sure that the telephone cable connections are secure at the modem and at the splitter unit

5. Make sure that the telephones connected are not faulty. A faulty telephone could cause internet disconnection.

6. Make sure that all telephone instruments are connected at the phone jack of the splitter and no instruments are connected parrallel to line or modem jack of the splitter.

7. Make sure the cables to modem are not coiled. This important to make sure any cables and connecting cord's are not coiled much because the coiled cables have less immunity to electromagnetic interferance.

8. Make existing joints rust free. Cut and renew the joints if the telephone has noise. Make sure the open joints are not exposed to environments. Rain causes to grow crust on joints easily.

9. Make sure the line attenuation rates re below 60db. This can also be checked by http://192.168.1.1/

10. If you cant figure out the problem, just call bsnl customer service, they will do the rest compensating time.

Tips To Avoid Gmail Space Shortage

You guy's may received that message "you have run out of space for your gmail account". This means that space allowed by gmail service is completely used and you have to find space to to store new emails. At beginning stage of  gmail it was given 1GB of inbox space which was hundred times larger than space provided by other email service providers. But nowadays many users ran out of their gmail inbox space quickly as they receive high quality video clips, pictures, PDF and other kind of data through email forwarding.

Here's some tips to get rid of the error message from google and continue to enjoy gmail services.

Delete Forwarded Mails

If your gmail account cant receive emails and it returns to the sender itself, you may confirm that you are out of space from gmail. To avoid space shortage, you have two options

1. You can server space from Google for a fee
2. Delete unwanted email messages from inbox and trash.

As you are a normal user, second method is more convinient. Unfortunately gmail does not provide any facility to filter out the larger emails and we have to find ourselves and delete the bigger emails in town.

Clean Gmail
There's a free service utility out there called Find Big Email. This website can filter out the emails having larger files. So it can be found from our inbox by search and deleted.

Catch Big Mails

  • Visit http://www.findbigmail.com/
  • Enter your gmail address
  • Findbigmail service scan you inbox and find the emails containing larger files
  • Here emails are put inside four folders according to their size 2MB, 500KB, 100KB etc
  • After finding the big mails, delete them from your inbox and trash ( delete forever)
  • Please to be noted that, it may take some time to process the request according to number of emails in your inbox.

Some other tips to avoid space shortage in Gmail

  • Delete unwanted emails at regular intervals
  • Avoid fun messages forfarding
  • Use file compressing softwares like winzip and winrar
  • Use JPEG format instead of tiff (.tiff) and .raw to reduce file size of pictures taken from digital camera. Set JPEG quality 7 to reduce size and optimum quality. To do this we can use Picassa or Photoshop software..
  • Normally the file size of pictures taken from home use cameras are 2-3 MB or more at 180 resolution. We can reduce the size to 120KB at 100 resolution
  • PDF quality can be controlled thereby the file size ( 12 is the full quality PDF but 7 is enogh)
  • Save word, open office document formats in .rtf instead of using .doc to save space.

How to Join Movie Part Files Together

If you are downloading DVD Rip movie files from websites like mediafire.com you want to join the part files like part .001, part002, part003 together to play the movie properly. If you try to play the file individually, it may not work always. So it's better to have an application that can easily join the part movie files together to form a full movie file in most popular file formats like mkv, avi etc

There's a free software called HJsplit the will do the task in a simple way. Download HJ-Split from Here. After downloading your part files from the website, open HJ-Split and select Join. To join a set of files open the .001 file using the input file button. Make sure that the other files ( part 002, 003 ) are in the same folder. So they will be found automatically. Click start after you select the output directory.

Set Video as Desktop Background in Windows

There are always amazing wallpapers on your desktop. Do you ever want to put a video clip as a desktop background? There's no complicated registry edits, no additional software required but you can do it in almost all windows operating systems like windows xp, windows 7 or vista. The only tool you should have is a free media player called VLC media player.

VLC media player is an open source media content player that can play almost all kind of videos of mpg, mp4, divx, 3gp etc

 Steps to set video as desktop background
  1.  Download VLC player from videolan.org if you doesn't have it.
  2.  Install the software on your system. The current version of VLC will be compatible to almost all operating systems from xp.
  3.  Open VLC player then click tools from the top bar then select preferences.
  4. On the left side, click video then in the output section, select directX video output from the drop down
  5. menu.Then check the option for Enable wallpaper mode on the bottom of it and click save.
  6.  You're almost done. Now open any videos in VLC will display the videos as background of desktop.


To disable video wallpaper from desktop, deselect DirectX wallpaper from the video menu of VLC. enjoy!

If you have any alternate methods to set video as desktop background, please share it below.

Steps To Activate Windows 7, Vista God Mode

Yes the the new windows 7 has an advanced hidden option called God mode. As the name suggests it allows the user to play with lots of configuration setting that not included at control panel. The main advantage of using god mode is that the user can access all of the operating system's control panel settings within a folder. The trick work with 32 bit vista but 64 bit versions tend to crash during God mode. 
Here's the steps to enable  God mode in Windows7 or Vista

1. Create a folder anywhere in your computer.
2. Right click on it and rename to:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Now the contents of the folder will be displayed as follows.
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The simple trick allows you to change the whole settings easier. Enjoy.

Some Websites Do Not Open On Aircel Internet - Solution

Aircel is one of the major mobile gprs internet providers across india. Their network has decent speed and connectivity also. But some users of aircel gprs complaining about their dns error pages when connecting to  certain websites like Blogger blogspot.com, onlinesbi.com, bharatmatrimony.com etc. When you call the aircel customer service to raise this issue, they may tell you that pocket internet doesn't block any sites. The problem is may due to excessive use of their single IP. Who cares!
Solution to the problem

There are solutions there for this problem. The one and easiest method is to use opera web browser with opera turbo on. The try these websites on opera. They should open because opera turbo uses different IP than default from aircel.

Best method to open all sites using any browser

In this trick, we are going to change the default DNS server address to a public DNS address. Follow these simple steps given below.

1. Click on the dial up connection that you have created for aircel pocket internet. Click properties below


2. In the new opened window, click on the Networking tab then click properties.



3. On the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties window, Change the option from Obtain DNS server address automatically to Use the following DNS server address.
Then you have to enter the following DNS address 008.008.004.004 (google public dns) to it and click OK. Done!

Now Connect the gprs using this dial up connection then open the desired web pages. There should be no blocking at all. Enjoy

How To Reduce Opera Memory Consumption

The opera web browser  is become the fastest web browser available in the web after they introduced the Opera turbo technology. Opera's mobile web browser opera mini is also the leading one. This works very well with slow internet connections such as dial up internet. Sometimes I also use opera along with mozilla firefox and it always give me very fast and secure browsing experience. But when I use both opera and firefox internet browsers simultaneously, I feel the pc is slow down sometimes, because the both browsers eat a lot of RAM
because they both have high working set while in maximized state. So it is necessary to reduce the memory usage of opera because on attempting memory consumption lowering technics to firefox could affect its overall performance

                    Here I share a simple trick to reduce memory consumption and speed up opera internet browser, some of you may tried this already. Anyway i found this useful. (I searched google about this but i cant find any useful solutions, so)

FIX:

STEPS:

1. Open opera and click appearence from Tools menu or press shift+F12
2. Under Skin tab, select windows native skin
3. In bottom uncheck the "Enable special effects" option

4. Click Ok

Ofcourse It sounds very simple but you can observe a significant change in memory consumption in taskmanger thats why I explained it in detail. Also your suggestions to reduce memory consumption of both opera and firefox is welcomed...