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Performance problems on your Mobile Internet connection? Try this!

#4 Pondrew

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 11:21 AM

Paul, a question. If you're lucky enough to have a Vario II on Web N Walk with HSDPA enabled will this be able to take advantage of the higher speed? Changing this address doesn't bypass T-Mobiles HSDPA network?

Forgive the question but there are gaps in my knowledge of such things...

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 11:23 AM

Just connected to WnW on my Vario II and sure enough, 'Locating...' for over a minute!!!

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 11:24 AM

Shouldnt do surely! The HSDPA bit is the connection between your handset and the network. The DNS servers are way beyond that - down the networks great big pipe onto the World Wide Interwebby thing.

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#7 PaulOBrien

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 11:27 AM

This won't affect anything like that.

A DNS server is what internet devices use to look up addresses.

For example, when you type 'www.google.com' in Pocket IE, the device then looks to the DNS server to tell it what the IP address is for that name (i.e. 66.102.9.99). Pocket IE is then finished with the DNS server, and goes directly to the IP address to retrieve the content.

It seems that the default DNS servers, assigned dynamically by your operator when you make your connection, are rather slow for some reason. This tweak replaces them with free public alternative DNS servers, that are much more performant!

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#8 rickwookie

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 11:27 AM

Pondrew, on Aug 22 2006, 12:21, said:

No, DNS servers are used to resolve addresses such as www.modaco.com into IP addresses. They don'y affect the network at all. In fact the devices has to connect to whichever DNS server over the same network. It's like a big phone book for the internet.

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#9 Pondrew

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 11:32 AM

Cool. Thanks guys

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 11:39 AM

I can see the difference already! Good work Paul!!

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#11 PaulOBrien

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 11:42 AM

We aim to please

Indeed, the more I use it post-tweak the more I'm convinced it's made a huge difference, hence i've moved this post to news

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 11:53 AM

Just tried it with the DNS servers posted above and no improvement. In fact it seemed to take longer to locate modaco than via O's server assigned ones...

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 11:54 AM

Definitely seems quicker,especially when loading a site like newsnow.co.uk. I'm using Opera by the way

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 11:59 AM

My MDA Pro is about 75% quicker, pages now load after about 8 seconds

(Using PIE)

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#15 Pondrew

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 12:00 PM

Maybe one particularly for the T-Mobile users then... at least until they improve the performance of their servers...

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 12:21 PM

Wow! What a difference!

This is fantastic. My internet performance has shot up.

I'd always put the slowness down to being on GPRS (I'm on T-Mobile web-n-walk unlimited).

This has made a huge difference.

Thanks Paul.

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#17 PaulOBrien

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 12:27 PM

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 12:27 PM

Paul

This is superb. I was suffering the same as everyone else, half the time when accessing web pages the connection seemed to "hang". This has cured it completely and the internet is as blazingly quick as I had hoped.

Thanks a lot.

Rob

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 01:23 PM

Can those of you on Orange who noticed an improvement stick your hands in the air, please?

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 01:57 PM

Great Tweak.. I have just entered in the settings and poof.. seems snappier on Cingular. Not sure how this could be, but I'm recording the fastest EDGE speeds I have ever seen.. 174kbps, 158kbps, 167kbps..

Testing at dslreports.com/mspeed

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#21 PaulOBrien

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 02:09 PM

If u are in the US, you could probably improve performance further by visiting the OpenNIC Server Page and changing the values to geographically closer servers.

Ping them to make sure they're up first tho

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#22 Snoopstah

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Posted 22 August 2006 - 02:17 PM

Does anyone know what IP ranges T-mobile use? I have my own personal DNS server that I'd like to open up to my T-mobile phone...

(Sorry, I'm not going to release the address - it's running on my ADSL line and while it'll be fine for my own personal use, it's definitely not up to becoming publically accessible)