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Originally Posted by OldDutch
Interesting experiment I ran last night. I think I isolated the configuration change that was giving me slow performance on my Netgear router. I had set Google Public DNS servers (8.8.8.8) as my DNS lookup, as opposed to Shaw.
Very basic test, but ran fast.com and got 80mbps on 2.4ghz wifi. I then set to Google DNS, and re-ran and got 25mbps. I then set back to Shaw DNS and re-ran and was back up to 80mbps.
I am going to try again tonight with a bit more rigor, but for now I think that may have been my slowness issue. Anyone having slowness their self may want to try this if they are using Google Public DNS.
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With regards to DNS settings, I've found that
namebench is a pretty useful tool for seeing if you need to tune up your DNS servers. I've had a set-up with three Shaw DNS servers specified in Windows, with Google as my fourth option, for a while now. The three Shaw servers are all in different cities - one's north of Vernon, one's in North Vancouver, and the last one is in the Shaw building in downtown Calgary. The set-up's been pretty solid for a while.