How to Increase Downloading Speed in BSNL Broadband

BSNL is the government owned telecom company in India that provide different services like landlines phones, wireless phones, broadband internet connections etc…

BSNL broadband internet connection is the most used broadband service in India. But many people find the download speed is not upto the mark. If so, BSNL provides an option to upgrade the internet speed by opting for another plan. Currently BSNL offers bandwidth of upto 8MBPS.

But if you’re not interested to upgrade to a new broadband plan and wanted to increase the internet speed using some tips, then here are the detailed instructions.

How to Increase Download Speed of BSNL Broadband?

Generally windows reserves 20% of the bandwidth provided by the Internet service providers. So if we can reduce the limit to 0, then we can use the complete bandwidth allocated for us.


    Go to Start -> Run
    Type “gpedit.msc” to open the group policy editor.
    Navigate to “Local Computer Policy” -> “Computer Configuration” -> “Administrative Templates” -> “Network” -> “QOS Packet Scheduler” -> “Limit Reservable Bandwidth.
    Now, double-click on the option named “Limit Reservable Bandwidth” and change the value from 20 to 0.

The third-party DNS servers are always better than the default BSNL DNS servers. So changing these can help you increase the download speed of the BSNL broadband.

    Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Center/Network Connections -> Open “Local Area Connection” and click on “Properties” button.
    Now click on “TCP/IP” and in the DNS address fields, replace the current DNS servers with the below two addresses.

        208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220

    Click “OK” and restart the Internet connection.

That’s it! The above tips worked excellently for me to increase my BSNL broadband speed.

Note: Windows 7 Home Edition (64 bit) doesn’t have gpedit.msc option (group policy editor). Hence, skip the first step and go with the second option if you’re win 7 home user