T-Mobile Users: Tip to Speed up your Internet Connection!
6 October, 2006 Posted by
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Paul at Modaco posted this tip and it has been tested by my friends at Microsoft, they wholeheartedly recommend to do it!
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
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
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
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I was wandering does this tweak work in the usa too? Or just in uk? The one that speeds up tmobile connection. And do u know if there is a way to shut off my internet counter so they dont slow down my internet after 5 gigs?