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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 an anti-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.

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 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.

1) Goto http://www.testmy.net/ and click on Download Speed Test, and then on Smart Test….(and while conducting this test, don’t forget to close all Instant Messagers, and there should be no other web activity, other than the test)

2) Note down the speeds.

Now, lets see, what all changes to be made…..

This tip is designed for increased BROADBAND speed in Windows XP while using standard Network Interface cards (NIC) that are connected to ADSL modems, or when using any directly-connected USB ADSL modem.

To speed up the Internet connection speed we need to configure a special buffer in the computer’s memory in order to enable it to better deal with interrupts made from the NIC or the USB modem.

This tip is only recommended if you have 256MB RAM or higher.

Step #1 - Identify the IRQ used by the NIC/USB modem

1. Open the System Information tool by running MSINFO32.EXE from the Run command.
2. Expand System Summary > Hardware Resources > IRQs.
3. Look for the listing made for your NIC (in my case - a Intel® PRO/100+ Management Adapter). Note the IRQ next to the specified line (in my case - IRQ21).

In case of USB modems you will first need to find the right USB device used by your modem. Follow these steps:

1. Open the Device Manager tool by running DEVMGMT.MSC from the Run command (or by right-clicking My Computer > Hardware tab > Device Manager button).
2. Scroll down to Universal Serial Bus controllers and expand it.
3. Right-click the USB Root Hub and select Properties. Note that you might need to do so for all listed USB Root hubs (if there are more than one) in order to find the right one.
4. In the Power tab, look for your USB ADSL modem.
5. In the Resources tab look for the assigned IRQ (in this case - IRQ21).
6. This is the IRQ we’re looking for.

Note: IRQs and modem names might vary…

Step #2 - Modify the system.ini file

1. Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the Run command.
2. Expand the system.ini file window.
3. Scroll down almost to the end of the file till you find a line called [386enh].
4. Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type IrqX=4096 where X is the designated IRQ number we found in step #1, in my case it’s IRQ21.

Note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE!!!

5. Click on the File menu, then choose Save.
6. Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.

Done. Speed improvement will be noticed after the computer reboots.

NOW DO THE SPEED TEST AGAIN (MENTIONED IN THE BEGINNING) AND NOTICE THE CHANGE IN SPEED

The most speed improvement is visible with USB.

WARNING:- It worked for me….am not sure whether it will work for you…

Courtesy: I got this while googling….thanks to the author

WARNING:- Never install this extension, if your Firefox version is below 1.5 and in such a case, upgrade the browser and then install this plugin.

Restart the browser and you will be amazed to see, the flash ads being blocked. This plugin also has the option to exempt some sites (like online greeting sites etc) from block.

And this Firefox extension successfully blocks the following:

• Macromedia Flash
• Macromedia Shockwave
• Macromedia Authorware

To know more about this firefox extension, please visit http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

1) Download No! Flash(it is a zip file and is about 135 kB in size)
2) Unzip (it can be unzipped without any softwares in Microsoft Windows XP, but you will need a ZIP utility like Winzip or 7zip in lower versions of Microsoft Windows) and install the software
3) After installing you can see its icon in system tray. Three squares, all white when the plugin blocks, and red & green when the plugin is inactive.
3) Right Click on this icon, select “Show main window”.
4) Check all boxes there and enable “Scripting(Pop-up windows,Animated ads)”
5) Also check “Launch with Windows strtup” and “Startup minimized in systemtray”
6) Click OK
7) Right Click the system tray icon again and goto Flash–>Block Flash (just to make sure that everything is OK)
Also check whether Script–>Enable script is selected

DONE!!!…

Whenever you wanna enable any of these elements temporarily, just right click the system tray icon and open the main window uncheck the required elements, click OK and then, ONLY THEN, open a new explorer window.

WARNING:- As far as I know this plugin only works with Internet Explorer 6. Not sure about Internet Explorer 7 or above and below Internet Explorer 6. And it will not work with Opera or firefox and other non-IE browsers.

Expecting your comments…..

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