fallingdove
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Can't wait to try this. My Xbone OS is slow as molasses.
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The secret to making your Xbox One snappier and quicker!
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The Albatross
Member
Same here -- Charter DNS has always been reliably faster for me. The only time I've changed my DNS settings have been for debugging a network connection for work, and Charter kept serving it's own custom error page and not the one I wanted.
InfiniteUnrest
Member
There are variables other than location at play - server load, server performance, faulty hardware, bad configuration, others.
Charter's DNS servers went down a month or two back over the weekend and left thousands without internet service, sort of. As I found out, it was the DNS servers that were down, nothing else. I changed my DNS to Google's and it fixed the issue. Once Charter fixed the DNS servers, I switched them back. I even tweeted out the temporary fix for others and helped quite a few people with the same issue.
Your request is not forwarded from your ISP's DNS to the DNS you've selected. It's direct (routed). If it was forwarded, then you would be completely SOL if the ISP's DNS went down, which is not the case.
What featured tab? Just go on the link I provided and download the tool and don't worry about messing around with the options.
There's a featured section there with downloads. Anyway, I'm on windows 8, so I just download this: namebench-1.3.1-Windows.exe right?
EteRnal PAL
Member
Bookmarked to test out later tonight. Thanks OP!
Yes, that should be it.
Make sure you post your results and I'll add you to the testimonials.
DJ_Lae
Member
I read the same thing was supposed to improve the awful download speeds I get on my Vita - made no difference at all, still stuck with about 20kbps where everything else I have is in the multiple megabytes over wifi.
Will test it out when my One arrives anyway, just out of curiousity.
Will test it out when my One arrives anyway, just out of curiousity.
BTW, would this work on my Ps4 as well?
It is relevant to all of your network devices. As far as I tested, on Xbox it's most visible.
HawksWinStanley
Member
I haven't messed with the XB1's interface since release. Any multiconsole owners care to fill me in on how it compares speed-wise to UI navigation on PS4?
artsi
Member
Maybe he meant the ISP gateway <-> DNS distance, but either way it shouldn't matter as Google most likely uses some anycast voodoo with DNS servers all over the world.
RedAssedApe
Banned
you may or may not see a increase...depending on what those other dns servers are resolving to. and like someone just mentioned above...what CDNs you get routed to when trying to access content.
its not uncommon to see no difference or sometimes even slower performance or improved performance...and then back to normal. personally i just stick with my ISPs DNS servers. changing to Google or OpenDNS never did anything for me.
its not uncommon to see no difference or sometimes even slower performance or improved performance...and then back to normal. personally i just stick with my ISPs DNS servers. changing to Google or OpenDNS never did anything for me.
Waylon Drums
Member
I tested the best DNS setting for my connection and found out that Google's would be 80% faster so I changed my settings. Re-ran the test after changing and was told that my connection would be 197% faster if I went back to my old settings.
I tried to make my connection better and failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.
I tried to make my connection better and failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.
InfiniteUnrest
Member
Probably so. It's definitely a YMMV situation, and worth a look for anyone who feels their console/device's responses are slow. It's not a bandwidth issue, it's a latency issue dependent upon the speed with which the DNS server responds to each request. For example, when you open up your Xbox 360 friends list, if you have quite a few friends and it loads instantaneously, then it's highly unlikely you have an issue or will notice improvement - you might even notice a decrease in responsiveness. If it's slow to load, however, then you may have an issue of DNS responsiveness, and changing to another DNS may fix it.
You have been added to the testimonial section.
I also use it and the namebench said the google DNS was 87% better lol.
I am not missing the point, you are, because we were not talking about the part I quoted, we were talking about this:
Quote from you:
And that is wrong. You doubled down on it later.
Ah, that makes sense.
Never had to deal with that during my support days.
Not surprised, that the 360 doesn't cache it longtime, but I don't expect it to make a lookup for the same domain everytime I scroll down a list for example.
I would assume, that the lookup result is at least cached per session.
Yeah, it should be rare, but one should keep that in mind.
I did the test and i got these results, does it mean that i've to put 62.101.93.101 as DNS?
With only 2.7% faster it's not much worth it, but yes.
I did that from my PC, where i have already set the google DNS, so maybe on Xbox One, where i've got the default DNS, the gap will be wider am i right?
It can be. There's a thing called geolocated DNS, in which different DNS servers match the address to different server IP addresses, usually based on location. This is used mainly by CDN servers to perform a sort of load balancing at DNS level and (in theory) redirect users to nearer servers, but sometimes things don't go as planned and your ISP DNS redirects you to a CDN server that has a bad or saturated route.
Sometimes it's the other way around.