Latest Speed Hack: Make Your Web Browsing Fly!!

[rudeboy]

Originally Posted by MBK2

I was trying the SetOpenDNS.EXE and got the message that I needed to upgrade to the Net 2.0 Framework, but after getting the NETCFSetupv2.msi file onto my PC, I was under the impression that I could have extracted only the cab file for my Q. I did not want to transfer the entire .msi setup file and run it off my storage card because I wasn't sure how many MBs this setup will need...I only have about 25 MBs available on the Q's internal storage.

Also, changing the values to my phone for OpenDNS manually doesn't even stick at all...once I come out of PHM editer, the values are back to the default...any ideas guys??

you can download the .cab of .Net 2.0 Framework from n99hockey's apps page at: http://www.scottschrob.com/Q/apps.htm

[MBK2]

Well I did the DNS setting change, then installed SetOpenDNS, as well as the Net 2.0 Framework (BTW, thanks rudeboy for posting the link I needed for the cab file).......One major problem though......

My speed went from 400 kbps down to bout 100-200 kbps!!!!! WTF?!?! And whats worse is that even after setting back, and even going as far as deleting the Net 2.0 Framework, along with the SetOpenDNS exe...It STILL stays at that 100-200 kbps..WTF?!?!

If I have to do a master reset and reload all my programs, that's gonna PISS ME OFF!!!...WTF?!?!

Any ideas from you guys that seem to have this so-called hack supposedly running faster on their Qs....WTF is going on with mine??

On top of that, this is also now affecting my tether to my laptop!!...

[MBK2]

Well I ended up having to do a master reset because it wasn't getting any faster.

Now I have to friggin' reload all my info and all the software I had installed.

So I went from getting about 700 kbps when I started doing some of these 'hacks', and then down to 400 kbps, .....all the way down to around 100 to maybe 150 kbps IF I'm lucky!! Even after the master reset!!

I am starting to think that the early enthusiasm of these hacks are getting the better of us, of 'me' atleast.
I never really saw any increases in performances with any of the internet '10X' faster, 'web browser' fly!!, run your CPU at max 314 MHz, etc....etc...hacks. If I thought I did notice any increases in performance, I could easily have refuted it to myself as possibly imaginary, because it was basically unnoticeable.

Now my Q seems a little 'fryed' and I will need to contact Verizon tech support to see if they can do something.....I'm hoping this is just a bad 24 hours for me and my Q, and just a fluke, because I mostly like the many things I've learned about mobile smartphone/ pocket PC technology from you guys here...just bummed that my connection is getting poorer by the second, especially on my tethering with my Core2Duo, 2 Gig laptop!!!...what a waste for that to go so slow surfing the web via my Q...

[rudeboy]

@ MBK2: in all honestly i think and it might have been mentioned that there is no guarantee this will work for everybody.. in my opinion which is after the fact people should just try to change the DNS manually and see how it effects things.. then they can run the setopendns.exe assuming it does the same thing, i haven;t had a reason to try either one..

it is a major bummer it did not work out for you..

[BIG-D]

Originally Posted by ciscokid0690

Does this tweak work for Sprint also?????????

yes it does

[rjones383]

yes it does. infact it is the only hack i have had any notable success with. its the only one im running right now.

[BIG-D]

Originally Posted by rjones383

yes it does. infact it is the only hack i have had any notable success with. its the only one im running right now.

there r lot more hacks that u can do to ur sprint Q

[MBK2]

Originally Posted by rudeboy

@ MBK2: in all honestly i think and it might have been mentioned that there is no guarantee this will work for everybody.. in my opinion which is after the fact people should just try to change the DNS manually and see how it effects things.. then they can run the setopendns.exe assuming it does the same thing, i haven;t had a reason to try either one..

it is a major bummer it did not work out for you..

You're right Rudeboy, I have no-one to blame except myself for allowing myself to think that these hacks are thoroughly researched out and are indeed stable. I was hoping that I could see some substancially noticeable increases in performance, both in the Q itself and in IE....but the truth if the matter is that it was already acceptably fast enough for a mobile system and none of these produced any increases that I could really verify that it did.
I think all that was done was to tax the CPU and I know better than to think that pushing such a small CPU wouldn't have it's potential downsides.

Anyways, my Q is intermitently getting better today, but occasionally it still drops to 150 kbps, and the Q's menu has locked up once. I'm hoping that with the hacks off the CPU will become more stable again.
It's quite possible that my Q is just one of those that can't handle being pushed, just as some Core2Duos on desktops that can't be pushed to 3.0 GHz while others can be pushed to nearly 4.0. So to others, by all means go with the hacks if it's working for you and you have no concerns about the long term effects to the CPU, it might be good to go for you guys...it just wasn't for my Q, but it was already performing well prior to the hacks and I really didn't need them in the first place...

[rjones383]

well I have a us cellular which is 1X. I went to the sprint store and tried out a Q running EVdo, and i cant see why those people even need to hack. those thing are fast. im lucky to hit 88kbps. the one i tested at sprint went 500. if only i wasnt locked into this contract......

[BIG-D]

c'mon people make'em stick .................