Inconsistent mobile internet
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So I'm back home for the holidays, and I've finally figured out that it's specifically when connected to the home wifi that this happens, and I have no idea why. My web browser on my phone works just dandy, and there's no connectivity issues at all. Nothing out of the ordinary there. But for any app that's meant to browse a single website, like the Twitter app or the Reddit app or even the Babylon Bee app, loadinh is slow as balls, and for some apps it just decides to timeout completely. Even a couple games are affected, but not all. Once the app finally finishes loading for the first time, though, then there's no latency issues at all for the rest of the time I'm using it. Twitter'll take about ten years to load, and then it'll work normally until I've had it backgrounded for long enough that Android decides to shutter it. I have absolutely no clue why this could be the case or where to even go about diagnosing it, let alone fixing it. Does anyone else?
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@pie_flavor said in Inconsistent mobile internet:
I have absolutely no clue why this could be the case or where to even go about diagnosing it
Sounds like a shitty DNS server. Are you using your ISP's?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Inconsistent mobile internet:
@pie_flavor said in Inconsistent mobile internet:
I have absolutely no clue why this could be the case or where to even go about diagnosing it
Sounds like a shitty DNS server. Are you using your ISP's?
Exactly my guess as well. Chrome probably caches IPs which is why it doesn't show on there as much. It might also override the defaults and use Google's
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@Tsaukpaetra I've set Google DNS for the network, and when that doesn't work I set DNS66 on top of it and use Google DNS through that. No dice.
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@pie_flavor have you tried using something like 1.1.1.1 to change your actual device's DNS settings?
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@sloosecannon would that it were that simple on mobile. I have set the DNS-over-TLS provider to 1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com.
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But a full on VPN does fix it.
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@pie_flavor said in Inconsistent mobile internet:
@sloosecannon would that it were that simple on mobile. I have set the DNS-over-TLS provider to 1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com.
The 1.1.1.1 app provides a local VPN that uses their DNS server. I think that's the only real way to do so.
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Cloudflare app fixed it. Guess DNS66 wasn't cutting it. Thanks, guys.
