Note: This post was published in 2011 and the solution may not work anymore. And please note that we are improving only the DNS resolution part of the web page fetching process. This will not have any impact on your download speeds.
Nowadays I find interest in solving the real-life problems which people face everyday through technology (However trivial it may look, its gonna help someone 🙂 )
Are you one of those thousands of people who are not satisfied by the browsing speed they get with Tata Photon+ connection? Well here is the simplest tweak you could make and increase the browsing speed by a maximum of 300% and AM NOT JOKING!
If you are a geek, am sure you’d have figured it out already. But if you are a non-technically inclined person, this post is for you. The sloth-like speed of Tata Photon+ connection is due to the default DNS servers. So the tweak is setting your DNS to 8.8.4.4 and the alternate DNS to 8.8.8.8. These are Google’s Public DNS server addresses.
In Windows :
This is for Windows 7. I believe everyone is current enough to have it on your PC 😛
Open Control Panel –> Network and Internet –> Network and Sharing Center –> Change Adapter Settings
Right Click on your Tata Photon+ Connection –> Properties
Move to Networking Tab
Double Click Internet Protocol Version 4
In the second fieldset, change to “Use the Following DNS server addresses”.
Preferred DNS server : 8.8.4.4 and Alternate DNS server : 8.8.8.8
Click OK and Reconnect.
In Ubuntu :
Click the Network Connections icon on the right hand side tray of Ubuntu Desktop.
Choose “Edit connections”
Change to “Mobile Broadband” –> Choose the Tata Photon+ Connection and click “Edit”
Then it might ask for your password. Enter it.
Change the Method to “Automatic (PPP) addresses only”
Set DNS servers to 8.8.4.4, 8.8.8.8
Click Save and Reconnect.
Note : If you don’t find any improvement after the change, then may be Google Public DNS is not the one for you. It works best if you are in Chennai. Now, the thing is that Tata Photon’s default DNS servers are not that fast. So we need a better alternative. You can find them by using Namebench software.
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loadsa thanks ! 😀
🙂 Just helping the Photon+ family..
Hi, How does one get the speed of photon to increase on Windows XP. Thanks
machi nee gethu da……:D
how to hack vodafone gprs da ???? !! any idea ??
Never tried Vodafone in ma life :P. Got this link and it seems to be working –> http://bit.ly/jpte7c
Cheers 🙂
dai hw much does it signinfacly increase ??
I tried it on three systems in Chennai and all those systems showed alteast 200% improvement. If this DNS doesn’t work try using NameBench Software..
how to change tata photon+ DNS for window xp…….??? coz my connection is tooooooooooooooo slow…!!!! pliz help
Go to Control Panel
Open Network Connections
Right Click on your Tata Photon Connection
Click Properties
Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
Click Properties.
You’l get the Internet Protocol Window. There choose “Use the following DNS server addresses” and enter the desired DNS addresses.
Cheers! 🙂
Thank You!
man u rockkkkkk !!!!!!!!!this is awesome thank u so much 😀
thanq….. da
DNS (Domain Name System) only speed up the browsing not downloading…………….
Ya.. Ofcourse. The latency in resolving the domain name to IP address is reduced. 🙂 Thats it. Makes a considerable impact on browsing.
My speed increased…Thanks Brother!! but uTorrent provides low speed..:(
thankxxxxxxx broooo
Yeah it really helped 🙂
Thanks buddy
Thanks mate..It helped…Not sure how or why, but surprisingly, both my browsing and download increased! 🙂
really works many many thanks for your information
thanks it really works
thnks man this is awesomeeee
It really works
xcellent
nice
thanksss it helped me a lot 🙂 🙂 🙂
thanks its working but again its getting slow,,,,am i need to enter everytime the dns setting
OMG right now i am feeling u r the most precious person i was struggling with slow speed issue since last 3 months and ur idea sorted it in just 2 min
how u did that i mean u r great yar many many thanks god bless u
Thanx
Thank u verrrrry much !
it really worked ….. tried it on my wifi…..works there too!!!
thanks a lot!! 😀
Thankyou bhai
thx buddy it’s working..
Will it increase my internet bills?
Nope, it won’t.
This change will only affect how a website address (say http://www.abczyc.com) resolves to a machine address (i.e. IP address) — this routine happens all the time we use a web browser, we just change which server does this name to number translation.
Helped me connect to my family on skype.
Thank You so much !!
Appreciate it !
Hey as per the comments , its looking cool , But you haven’t provide any solution for mac , so is there any , using the max wifi device in gurgaon , its ok if you dont know how to do it in mac , just provide me the DNS server’s ,
Waiting for your response !!!!!!
Keep Up the Good things , BRAVO!!!!!
Hi Sam, this is a pretty generic solution. So just use the Google DNS servers in the DNS setting on your Mac.
For IPv4: 8.8.8.8 and/or 8.8.4.4.
For IPv6: 2001:4860:4860::8888 and/or 2001:4860:4860::8844.
Those tips were amazing, but I got some more amazing tricks to increase Tata Photon Speed. You can have a look at it here: http://www.techdisko.com/boost-increase-tata-photon-plus-max-speed-prepaid.html
thanksss … awsome . worked perfactlllly .
in windows 10 its is not working…..
Thanks for the comment Keerthi. Sorry that I don’t have access to a Windows 10 machine now. However, I got the following link from a Google search for how to change the DNS setting in Windows 10 — http://www.geeksquad.co.uk/articles/how-to-change-your-dns-windows-10
Hope this helps!
Thanks for the help dude.
thank you so so much