Wednesday, August 23, 2006
GPRS/EDGE/3G Users: Improve Internet Performance w/ OpenNIC DNS Servers
Posted by Ekkie Tepsupornchai in "ARTICLE" @ 01:00 PM
"Do you use the internet on your device and sometimes find it a bit slow to first load websites? Does your phone often 'wait' on the 'Locating...' stage in Pocket IE? If you answered YES to these questions, then this may be the answer. I have been doing some testing / research on both T-Mobile AND Orange GPRS/EDGE/3G connections, and it appears that the DNS servers on both networks are rather slow to respond sometimes. Therefore, this tweak will change your DNS servers from the T-Mobile settings to the public free OpenNIC servers."
If you're seeing very slow performance over your wireless data connection, it may be that your operator's DNS servers are dog-slow. While the article really starts out addressing T-Mobile and Orange users in Europe, there was one respondent who claimed to see faster speeds with his Cingular service here in the US. So read over the article as it steps through the process of updating your DNS settings (for both Pocket PC and SmartPhone devices) and be sure to double check the OpenNIC Server Page to find the most geographically-friendly DNS servers available (the addresses provided in the article assumes you're in Europe). Let us know how this works out!
If you're seeing very slow performance over your wireless data connection, it may be that your operator's DNS servers are dog-slow. While the article really starts out addressing T-Mobile and Orange users in Europe, there was one respondent who claimed to see faster speeds with his Cingular service here in the US. So read over the article as it steps through the process of updating your DNS settings (for both Pocket PC and SmartPhone devices) and be sure to double check the OpenNIC Server Page to find the most geographically-friendly DNS servers available (the addresses provided in the article assumes you're in Europe). Let us know how this works out!
