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17-06-2019 05:16 PM
Hi Guys
I have just had Vodafone broadband installed, it was appalling whilst using most devices.
I checked the physical and transport layers and below, all looked fine and it was syncing at 40mb down, latency was <15ms etc, it was mainly applications running really slowly. I changed the router DNS settings to Google DNS instead of Voda DNS, boom, now I’m getting 30mb+!!! Login to your router > Internet > DNS & DDNS > Manually > 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
My company laptop uses Cisco AnyConnect SSL VPN and there I noticed the best gains, from 0.17mb to 32mb download after I changed DNS servers.
Hope someone in the Infrastructure team gets this note and fixes this DNS issue.
Sam
03-04-2020 09:13 PM
@donelson52 wrote:Our speeds are as promised BUT THERE IS HUGE LAG after each web request. I set a URL into my browser and get a bit of feedback (DNS resolved?) then there can be a 5-10 second lag before the web page starts to load. This has been getting worse and worse over the last year, especially in the evenings.
I suspect there are too many subscribers on our node of the network, with great profit for Vodafone, of course.
I switched to VF from BT (was with them for 5 years and happy with service but changed due lower cost of VF) a few weeks ago and was experiencing exactly the same lag issue as above.
If you don't need parental controls, change to Google DNS servers: 8.8.8.8 and/or 8.8.4.4
I need the parental controls/filtering so am using a free account with OpenDNS: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
The performance is normal with either Google or OpenDNS and there is no lag.