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How to Improve your EVDO Speed

So after much annoyance i got my EVDO at last. The device looks the same , the old and bulky one from ZTE who are feared to place backdoor in their devices supplied to BSNL because of the ongoing tensions between India and China. In my previous experience i can say Chinese hardware is cheap but they underperform badly.

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Well the moment i installed it and plugged in the device , i was waiting for surprises. As presumed , speed was too low , below 256 and that is unacceptable when i have taken this just to replace my ordinary unlimited 256 Kbps plan. As my nature, i am born to do experiments , though i will never be a scientist icon smile How to Improve your EVDO Speed , but in my own ways . I took my brothers laptop [Dell Inspiron 1425] and started moving to get better speeds all over the house , after all mobility is what EVDO provides. Here are few things i noticed that may improve your evdo speed.

Points to remember

  1. Height : Unless your covered with building from all directions , it makes no difference for your evdo device to catch signals , be it the 3rd floor or ground floor.
  2. Direction: In my experience direction is very important. Just keep pointing at the direction in with the actual transmitting tower is . Get knowledge from the BSNL authority and do a physical inspection by going to the actual base.Just remember that aerial distance matters , i.e. the straight view .
  3. Keep away from electromagnetic disturbance. As you must be knowing wireless devices start malfunctioning near strong electronic waves. So keep them away from devices like speakers,CRT monitors, ups, tube light. Illuminating devices have pulsating waves coming out of them so its better to keep away from them.

Following these few basic steps i started getting good speed.

These are the test results from SPEEDTEST.net. Though ping duration is tool slow and avoid having an EVDO if you are aiming for multiplayer gaming.

I was getting 220 KBps + with torrents , though i do not have the screen shot of that [forgot to have one out of joy icon smile How to Improve your EVDO Speed ].I did nt have any port forwarding or blocked port issue till now , but i will keep you updated.

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    Tip

    If you are looking for better torrent speed try using uTorrent client rather than Bittorrent. Interface of both the torrent clients is more or less same. As i have already mentioned , i am getting better speed with uTorrent [220 KBps and above i.e. Kilo Bytes Per Sec ]

    Well on the first day of use , that is what i have to say. But i will just keep adding as i go and my experiments succeed
    Have fun with your EVDO , its good .

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6 Responses - Add Yours+

  1. Gurpreet Singh says:
    December 24, 2009 at 10:16 am

    Thanks for sharing these points As in Ludhiana evdo is started just few months ago I got a chance to test it but it fails in my test. Reason I have just 20 feet away from the BSNL tower installed and I got just 100 KBPS speed. I contacted the officials they don’t response any reason for this one.

  2. Sourish says:
    December 24, 2009 at 11:13 am

    @Gurpreet Singh

    There are these technical issues that they fail to resolve . Trying to call them is useless, visiting senior official may do some good , but most of the BSNL employees try to keep themselves within their assigned duties. So, rarely will you get a helping hand . All they can say about the speed that it is upto 2Mbps and it can fall anywhere between the range of 0-2Mbps, say 114 kbps or even less …

    But i am happy with the mobility i get , the price for an unlimited connection . 100 KBps is good speed . With BSNL 750 UL + i get 32 KBps.

  3. Sourish says:
    December 24, 2009 at 11:20 am

    I think you are getting 100 Kbps and not KBps . Then there is something wrong and you must take this issue with them . Also do ask about BTS location . BTS stands for base transceiver station. More info here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_transceiver_station

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    June 23, 2010 at 3:27 am

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  5. tinnitis says:
    August 10, 2010 at 12:49 pm

    @chels I know what you mean, its hard to find good help these days. People now days just don’t have the work ethic they used to have. I mean consider whoever wrote this post, they must have been working hard to write that good and it took a good bit of their time I am sure. I work with people who couldn’t write like this if they tried, and getting them to try is hard enough as it is.

  6. Robin says:
    March 18, 2011 at 1:28 pm

    I have a problem with my BSNL EVDO card… :( i am not able to get connection all of a sudden after Authentication error i get the message to ping the remote host is there any solution???? :