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How To Speed Up Your Mobile Web Surfing

Posted Aug 26, 2006 at 09:35AM by Kyle M. Listed in: Wi-Fi, PDA Software Tags: Windows Mobile, GPRS, Pocket PC

Brighthand has come up with a pretty simple way of speeding up your mobile web surfing. Using this method should guarantee you faster mobile internet surfing, no matter what brand of device you are using or how you are accessing the internet. How do you achieve this? Simply by changing the DNS server your web browser is using. Obviously, the techno mumbo jumbo that explains why it is quicker is pretty boring so we'll skip that part and move on to the action.

The process for changing your DNS server depends on what type of device you are using. That's why we've broken the instructions up into sections.

Before we start, though, there's something that we need to tell everyone who is going to try this, no matter what model you're using. If during this process you discover that your device already has the addresses for its primary and secondary DNS servers set, then you're definitely going to need to carefully write these down. If you change to different DNS servers and find that your web browsing is slower, then your going to want to change back. Now here's how to do it:

Pocket PC

   1. No matter what application you're in, open the Start Menu and select Settings.
   2. At the bottom of the resulting screen will be a tab labeled "Connections." Select it.
   3. Tap on the Connections icon near the top of the screen.
   4. Select the link labeled "Manage existing connections."
   5. You'll see a list of possible connection methods. (For many people there'll only be one.) Select whichever of these is your primary connection, then tap on the "Edit..." button near the bottom of the page.
   6. Starting on the next page, hit the Next button twice.
   7. You should be on a page with a button labeled "Advanced." Tap on it.
   8. At the bottom of the resulting screen will be a tab labeled "Servers." Select it.
   9. Hit the radio button for "Use specific server addresses."
10. Below that will be text boxes where you can enter the addresses you want to use. Change DNS to "4.2.2.1" and change Alt DNS to "4.2.2.2"
11. Click OK and then hit the Finish button.

Windows Mobile Smartphone

   1. While on the Today Screen, select the Start Menu.
   2. Choose Settings on the resulting screen.
   3. Choose Connections from the list of options
   4. Now select GPRS
   5. Pick your GPRS connection from the resulting list of connections.
   6. Scroll down this screen until you come to "Primary DNS," then enter "4.2.2.1"
   7. For Secondary DNS, enter "4.2.2.2"
   8. Press the Done button at the bottom of the screen, then hit the red Phone button to return to the Today Screen.

Palm OS

   1. While in the application launcher, find the Prefs application and open it.
   2. Choose the Network option.
   3. From the drop-down list of Services, pick your GPRS connection.
   4. Tap on the "Details..." button at the bottom of the screen.
   5. There probably be a checkmark next to "Query DNS." Uncheck this.
   6. For "Primary DNS," enter "4.2.2.1"
   7. For Secondary DNS, enter "4.2.2.2"
   8. Hit the OK button, then the Done button.

If web browsing is actually slower, though, you can undo this process very easily. If you already had specific DNS servers before you started this process, simply use those. If you didn't and you have a Pocket PC, go back to where you selected "Use specific server addresses" and switch to "Use server-assigned addresses."

To reverse this process on a WM Smartphone, just erase the DNS server addresses you entered.

On a Palm, put the checkmark back next to "Query DNS." Happy web browsing!

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by ... (Unregistered) - 2006-08-26

» ?

so... would the psp fall under any of those categories?

by 2. (Unregistered) - 2006-08-27

Yea is the psp under that catagory cause this would be good if we could speed up psp wi fi browsing.

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