Comments on: How to make Telus highspeed go 3x faster

By: S2art

S2art — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:06:51 +0000

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r25708456-Actiontec-V1000h-31.30L.48-modified-TELUS-firmware

This link will give you instructions and download link that will allow changes to be made…

By: S2art

S2art — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:05:36 +0000

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r25708456-Actiontec-V1000h-31.30L.48-modified-TELUS-firmware

This link will give you instructions and download link that will allow changes to be made…

By: Benson Wong

Benson Wong — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:09:58 +0000

You can always set it on your desktop / laptop. I have my laptop’s DNS servers set to Google’s (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4) all the time. It doesn’t matter what network I’m on. This works 99% of the time. However, I was in the Apple store the other day and they filter DNS. So you have to use the DHCP settings sometimes.

By: George

George — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:32:43 +0000

Great article Benson! I am on TELUS network too but in spite of my hard efforts I could not change the DNS settings in the Actiontec V1000H router/modem provided by Telus. It seems as they run a propietory firmware that disables the possibility of changing DNS servers. Any ideas on how I can work around their settings? Thanks for helping!
George

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:58:35 +0000

Thank you for posting this – I echoe the commenter above who was having major problems with telus ‘high speed turbo.’ Phoned them up and they tried to make me sound like I was imagining that it took me 30 seconds to a minute to load Gmail or the Globe and Mail. Tried OpenDNS and things now load instantly.

By: T

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:05:53 +0000

I work for Telus as a sysadmin for a different department. I’ve recommended OpenDNS for years. I’ve also suggested to upper management that we should either get with it or just use OpenDNS to enhance our DSL customers’ experience. Slow DNS resolution is so 1990′s.

By: Joanne Morgan

Joanne Morgan — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:51:06 +0000

Thank you Benson!

Now I finally know why my Telus ultra-high speed internet connection works as fast as two tin cans attached by string.

Telus’ tech dept keeps trying to tell me the speed is what it should be, and that it must be my browser’s problem. However, so often I can’t even get a website to bring up photos or even get onto sites during peak usage hours, it made me think that Telus’ cache size was really more the issue – although I doubt they will ever admit it.

I’m thinking of changing providers.

By: wtaz

wtaz — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:36:48 +0000

Checked out these Verizon DNS servers….fast
Google DNS servers are fast too…..

By: Trevor Weimer

Trevor Weimer — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:55:51 +0000

I don’t know about speeds but I do know that over the weekend I tried to view changes to my site and couldn’t. Why? Because telus’s dns wasn’t finding it. How do I know? Well the two macs in my house couldn’t find it but my iPhone could using the 3G network. I put in opendns’s numbers and my site showed up.
I’d like to add their numbers to my router but I’m using a telus seimens router which won’t allow it. Instead I put the numbers in the network settings on each mac.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:56:19 +0000

I find it hard to believe that, for an average user, changing DNS servers will boost your internet speed 3 times. Maybe in your case it improved it a lot, but you must be an outlier. For the average person, it probably won’t make much of a humanly noticeable difference.

I’ve been with Telus for years and moved around between them, DynDNS, and now OpenDNS. It’s never really made that much of a difference at dslreports speedtest or now speedtest.net.

Where it does make a difference is in website development. It can take up to a week for Telus to update when you make a change at your domain registrar. But if you use OpenDNS or any other DNS, the change is minutes to a few hours.