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Assigning Open NIC DNS to speed up web
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Posted by: xultar

Any of you done this tweak from Modaco?

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.

Here's what you need to do (screenshots from a Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone / PPC device at the end of this post if you need them):

Pocket PC

- From the Start Menu, select 'Settings', then select the 'Connections' tab
- Select the 'Connections' option
- Select the first of the two 'Manage Existing Connections' options
- Highlight your main Internet connection, and click edit
- Click 'Next'
- This page should say 'general.t-mobile.uk' on T-Mobile UK, 'orangeinternet' on Orange UK, or something different if you're with someone else wink.gif Click 'Next'
- Click 'Advanced'
- Click 'Servers'
- Click 'Use specific server address' and enter DNS as '217.115.138.24', Alt DNS as '83.217.93.246'. You can leave both WINS settings as '0.0.0.0' at this stage.
- Click 'OK'
- Click 'Finish'

Smartphone

- From the Start Menu, Select 'Settings'
- Select 'Connections'
- Select 'GPRS'
- Ensure your main GPRS Internet connection is selected, and press 'Menu' then 'Edit'
- Modify the Primary DNS entry to read '217.115.138.24'
- Modify the Secondary DNS entry to read '83.217.93.246'
- Press 'Done' 4 times

You should note at this stage that if you have an existing GPRS connection active, it will drop. This is necessary to pick up the new DNS settings.

Now try browsing the web etc., and report back if it responds differently. This change has massively, massively improved the responsiveness of Pocket IE for me, hence this post.

To reverse this change, simply follow the steps above and set the DNS settings back to automatic.

What are your results
More details and discussion here... http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=244497&st=0

Posted by: CeluGeek

I tried it, didn't see any noticeable difference so I put things back to normal. I think only Europeans will benefit from those DNS servers because they are closer to them.

Posted by: FreakinSyco

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Originally Posted by WM4me

I tried it, didn't see any noticeable difference so I put things back to normal. I think only Europeans will benefit from those DNS servers because they are closer to them.

I know for me it sped up my connection considerably... well it didnt speed up connection speed just the period of time the browser would spend "locating" pages. Went from 30seconds to 1min down to maybe 5 seconds. It appears its hit or miss on it effecting your loading times (if your having trouble in the first place).

Posted by: CeluGeek

I know what the workaround is supposed to do, but I still spent about the same amount of time waiting for a page to begin loading with those servers, as I wait when using the automatic setting from Cingular. Any difference was nigligeable so I rather set my device back to its unhacked state. If this works for some people, then great, worth giving a shot but this may not help everyone, or in every GPRS/EDGE session.

Posted by: xultar

Quote:

Originally Posted by WM4me

I tried it, didn't see any noticeable difference so I put things back to normal. I think only Europeans will benefit from those DNS servers because they are closer to them.

Doode...
There are some US Servers. I used them. Check out.
http://www.opennic.unrated.net/public_servers.html

Posted by: hylton

There is another thread here at HoFo discussing this same link over to Modaco, I've been trying the US based DNS servers and they all seem to be as slow as leaving the DNS out of the settings.

The two servers listed in the original Modaco thread are (so far) much faster than any others that I've tried. I'm sitting in Virginia. No idea where those two servers in the Modaco thread are located.

Chris

Posted by: dewhut

i use mini opera now, it's much faster than IE and let's me go on sites that IE won't let me.

Posted by: iJITSU

I tried many of those DNS settings on a Qtek 8500 and 2125 and it did nothing. Still hung at Locating for about the same amount of time. Cingular is really ticking me off as of late. My mobile internet experience, something I greatly enjoyed until the end of July, is now near worthless.

Posted by: Fuzzy024

WORKS GREAT ON CINGULAR!!!!!! No problems at all. I can even check my POP3 mail in under 5 seconds now, before it took almost 20 secs to process. Great TWEAK!!

Posted by: digitalslurp

I didn't use OpenNIC servers, but did this hack with OpenDNS' servers and can notice a significant speed increase. Pages load much faster than before.

Posted by: GldRush98

What a talentless hack!

Hijacking a solution we had here 2 weeks ago in this thread:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...t=968388&page=2
hahaha... HoFo for the win.