[email protected] wrote: > I decided to try out Cloudflare's DNS service (1.1.1.1). As the Comcast > gateway will not let the user change the DNS settings in it, I plugged a > router into the gateway and input Cloudflare's addresses into it. For added > measure, I also set the WiFi connection from the Android to the router to use > a static IP address and also manually input the same DNS' for the connection. > In using the router, I am losing IPv6. The router supports it, but I was not > able to establish a successful IPv6 connection with it. > > The speeds via an Ethernet connection from the router did not change using > 1.1.1.1, although I noticed a 10% increase in both download and upload speeds > via WiFi, using both Ookla's Speedtest app and the speedof.me web site. Prior > to this - connecting directly through the Comcast gateway but also using > Comcast's DNS' through the router, the phone displayed download speeds of > 50Mbps and upload speeds of 11Mbps. Using 1.1.1.1 via WiFi, I am now seeing > download speeds approaching 56Mbps and upload speeds approaching 13Mbps, via > the same app and web site. This is all via 2.4GHz. > > It is possible that just by changing the DNS service, it resulted in this > increase in WiFi speeds?
No. You changed the Comcast hardware out for some other hardware. A 10% change is well within normal parameters. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
