How to Cushion the Effect of Etisalat Data Speed Throttling to Increase Browsing Speed Considerably

How to Cushion the Effect of Etisalat Data Speed Throttling to Increase Browsing Speed Considerably

If you have been using Etisalat network for different internet data subscriptions and browsing, you must have noticed that certain data plans comes with it Etisalat fair data usage policy.

And the fair data usage policy is mostly applied to Etisalat unlimited data plans such as Etisalat hourly browsing plans and the newly introduced Etisalat Smartpaks data plans.

And what that simply entails is that for those Etisalat data plans, speed throttling applies at certain point of data usage, and whenever it happens, your browsing/downloading speed drops and that can be very frustrating.

Imagine surfing the internet at speed rate of 500KB/Sec to 1mb/sec and now noticing that the speed has dropped from those rates to say maybe 40kb/secas it usually happens – I bet you can imagine how frustrating that could be.

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Now, so many folks have been asking me, if there is any trick to increase Etisalat browsing speed whenever the speed throttling applies.

Well, I want to say here that it is quite difficult to manipulate your way through in trying to increase speed after speed throttling is automatically applied by Etisalat, but we have found out a little tip on what to do at that point to increase data speed considerably.


Whenever you are using any Etisalat data plan that throttles speed, you are usually notified at that point when the speed throttling is being applied, and you will even notice it yourself as result of the drastic drop in receiving data rate.


At that point, even loading a page becomes too slow and everything you are doing related to browsing/downloading becomes immediately boring.

But here is a little work around tips to increase the speed considerably whenever speed throttling comes to play

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= => When you are browsing and notice that the speed throttling has been applied, if you are using a modem, simply disconnect your internet connection at that point, take out your modem from your PC and re-insert it again and then connect again, you will notice that internet speed would have increased considerably and your webpages loading quite well.

= => If it is smartphone or any other mobile smart devices that you are using; at that point of speed throttling, stop browsing and switch off your phone’s internet data, and then switch it on again and continue with your browsing. You will also notice that your browsing speed will increase considerably.

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