http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=244497

Check it out, I found this from Pocket PC Thoughts webpage. Basically your adding your own DNS servers instead of using verizon's. I haven't tested yet but European users report that it helps and pocket pc thoughts noted at least one cingular user who thought it improved page load times. Post your thoughts if you'd like.


You can use these DNS address's (from OpenDNS):

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220


Edit: You can pick DNS servers here if you want:
http://www.opennic.unrated.net/public_servers.html


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I think its faster, I do recall seeing it sit on locating sometimes for a few seconds. Now it blows right past that with locating only displaying for a split second. I've been testing it on a 1X connection (hey im in a basement...). I'll test it on EV when I get outside or get home.

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and here I thought this thread would be a hit...faster internet/page load times aren't as important as I thought I guess.

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Interesting idea. I have tried it now, using the DNS settings you offered. It seems pretty fast, but I can't really measure whether there is any difference with precision.

Anyone else try it?

- Tim

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Interesting. Just changed mine to the DNS servers in your initial post (since they are located in NY). We'll try it for a few days to see if makes a real difference.

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Id like to see if this does make a difference as well.

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Been using these settings for the past few days. Not sure if it makes any significant difference (in NJ). Going to keep it for awhile longer.

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I've tried and tried to assign my own but it seems sprint wont allow it. Every time I do it reverts back to the default sprint assigned servers. Darn.

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It seems a bit quicker at the Locating phase to me. More importantly, I haven't had a single DNS failure since making the change a few days ago. Verizon's DNS seemed to fail a few times a day on me, giving me page-not-found errors that went away on refresh.

Same here...it's definitely the DNS, and I'm not surprised that VZW wouldn't know how to reliably run one.

BTW, I'm in San Francisco but traceroutes reveal that all of my traffic (even one local to the Bay Area) goes through Dallas, TX, so the fastest DNSs are those located close to there. Check out http://www.ipaddressworld.com/ from your PDA and then do a tracert from your PC to that IP address to see where you're interconnected.

it does seem to be faster. i tried loaded some slower sites and it worked pretty well. not a huge difference though

Is anyone still doing this (using alternate DNS servers) and does it still seem to be faster than using the Verizon defaults?

- Tim

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I used it for a while, but I never set it back up after a couple of hard resets ago. I found that it's a subtle difference and really not work changing. It is worth testing occasionally, as Verizon could add some delay on there end with their DNS servers, but really it's a very small increase, if any.

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