Source: Modaco.com 

Give this a try – I just tried this on my Cingular 8125 and the difference in page loading speed in Pocket IE is *HUGE*.

Think it’s safe to say we all want better / faster browsing on our mobile devices.  Have just found a great tip for achieving this on Pocket PC Phone edition / smartphone devices, and others.

Spotted this and tried this out thanks to a post at The Mobile Gadgeteer on this subject. The tip originates from a post by Paul at Modaco.com.

He found that the DNS servers used by the T-Mobile and Orange networks were very sluggish – and this may well be the case for several other major carriers. So the trick is to change your DNS server settings, from the default, server-assigned ones provided by the carrier to OpenNIC DNS servers. He has a great walk-through (with screenshots like the one above) on how you modify this on Pocket PC and Smartphone devices.

This was timely for me, as I had recently been noticing that my 8125 seemed to spend a stupid amount of time on ‘Locating …’ in the PIE status bar when you click a page link (before it ever changes status to ‘Opening’) – which suggested a DNS issue – but had just been lazily ignoring the issue.  

I just tried this on my Cingular 8125 and the difference in page loading speed in Pocket IE is *HUGE*. I’m sure mileage may vary – a lot – depending on your device and carrier etc, but if your current browsing speed is a fair bit south of great, this is definitely worth a try.  If you have an active GPRS connection when you change the settings, they won’t take effect until the connection is dropped and re-established – this should happen when you make the change. 

Check out the Modaco post for details and screenshots on how to make this change – it is WELL worth it:

Modaco Mobile Internet Connection Performance Tip