[Discuss] OT - Increased WiFi Speeds After DNS Change

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Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at 11:19 AM
From: "Matthew Gillen" <me at mattgillen.net>
To: discuss at driftwood.blu.org
Subject: Re: [Discuss] OT - Increased WiFi Speeds After DNS Change

On 7/18/2020 6:27 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:

>> No. You changed the Comcast hardware out for some other
>> hardware. A 10% change is well within normal parameters.

> Typically a speedtest would only do one (or a few) DNS lookup(s) at the
> beginning of the test. So any change in latency for that part would be
> completely drowned out by the test of the test.

> Also, I wouldn't necessarily trust speeedtest anymore. They are owned
> by comcast. Fast.com uses netflix's same cloud infrastructure, so if
> you want to know what throttling your ISP might actually be putting in
> place, that is probably more reliable.


The router has a checkbox for 'b/g protection'. Since the phone is 802.11n and do not have any b or g devices, I unchecked this box and rebooted the router. Upon checking the speed again via both speedof.me and Ookla Speedtest, the WiFi speeds actually reached 60Mbps. The displayed link speed for the WiFi connection is 72Mbps, which I understand is normal.