2026-04-04 18:56 UTC
> Charter customers experienced horrible download speeds using Charter’s DNS servers.
How did that work? Are you saying that charters dns servers were sending traffic to completely different places?
Tried to google for this but found nothing so hard to understand the problem.
Why not just switch dns servers instead of getting a vpn?
> Tell me you’re a dickhead without telling me you’re a dickhead.
Yeah fair. Got me there.
EDIT: other guy mentioned throttling, which is interesting. But changing dns servers doesn’t fix that.
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@Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 2026-04-04 19:01
Dunno about where Charter was routing. Just knew it was a common best practice for users in my town to manually set their DNS to Google. Charter became Spectrum and since then this hasn’t been a need. So far as cellular goes, I don’t think I can manage my IP settings on the phone as one would on Windows. I already use VPN if I travel or use public WiFi, and learned that, holy shit, my speeds are far better while connected than not. So I stay connected almost all the time. It’s counter intuitive, but I can’t argue with the results.