Character before Career: A Suggestion to Improve the Speed of PTCL EVO Broadband

Use of internet in Pakistan is increasing day by day. Majority of youngsters are enjoying “Uploading and Downloading” by their mobile phones. In big cities, computers were connected to PTCL landlines to use internet and still a majority of users in big cities, is using landlines. However, in small cities, towns and in remote villages where landlines were not present, PTCL vwireless was a big source of internet usage. Now EVO Broadband Wireless is replacing vwireless rapidly. Although it needs an antenna to get a better signal strength, yet it is satisfactory.

Vwireless has a speed up to 230.5 kbps but EVO Broadband has a speed up to 3.1 mbps(in Hybrid mode). Although EVO Broadband is a high-speed internet device yet sometimes it seems, it is even slower than vwireless (in CDMA Mode). In the case of vwireless, we could check the speed easily through its Status but when EVO is connected, it is a little difficult for a new user to check the speed. Speed and Graph that are being displayed in the statistics of EVO Display are not fully helpful.

There are many solution of this problem but I suggest a single. Go to Start>Control Panel>Network and Internet Connections>Network Connections>Local Area Connection.

Now click the right mouse button on the Icon.

A drop down, like this, will appear:

Disable

Status

Repair

Bridge connections

Create Shortcut

Delete

Rename

Properties

Now, first, check the status of your connection: Status>General. If it shows the speed 3.1kbps then it is ok and your connection is working properly. However, if it shows the speed 153.6kbps then it is limited. Come out of the Local Area Connection Status window and again click the right and click on Repair, Microsoft Windows will take some actions and after finishing it will give the following message:

Windows finished repairing your connection. You can try connection again.

If the problem persists, contact the person who manages your network.

Now remove your EVO USB form the port of your computer and Refresh your computer with F5. Again, plug in the EVO with your PC and connect it and check its Status through Start>Control Panel>Network and Internet Connections>Network Connections>Local Area Connection.

I hope, it will be showing 3.1 kbps speed. If the problem persists then try again.

Google recommends the following! For details Click Here

DNS settings are specified in the TCP/IP Properties window for the selected network connection.

Example: Changing DNS server settings on Microsoft Windows 7

Go the Control Panel.
Click Network and Internet, then Network and Sharing Center, and click Change adapter settings.
Select the connection for which you want to configure Google Public DNS. For example:
- To change the settings for an Ethernet connection, right-click Local Area Connection, and click Properties.
- To change the settings for a wireless connection, right-click Wireless Network Connection, and click Properties.
If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
Select the Networking tab. Under This connection uses the following items, select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) or Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) and then click Properties.
Click Advanced and select the DNS tab. If there are any DNS server IP addresses listed there, write them down for future reference, and remove them from this window.
Click OK.
Select Use the following DNS server addresses. If there are any IP addresses listed in the Preferred DNS server or Alternate DNS server, write them down for future reference.
Replace those addresses with the IP addresses of the Google DNS servers:
- For IPv4: 8.8.8.8 and/or 8.8.4.4.
- For IPv6: 2001:4860:4860::8888 and/or 2001:4860:4860::8844
Restart the connection you selected in step 3.
Test that your setup is working correctly; see Testing your new settings below.
Repeat the procedure for additional network connections you want to change.