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Cingular’s DNS (name lookup) service has all the celerity of… celery. It’s slightly slower than glacial creep, but a hair faster than the San Andreas fault. Occasionally, it fails in its mission to provide same-day service. If you use IE, perhaps you’ve stared at the “Locating…” message in the status bar, waiting for any omen that you’d be connected to your desired host at some point. I recommend action.

OpenDNS is fast and free. Its creators make many (perhaps extravagant) claims on its behalf, but none of those claims is as interesting as the brute fact that their DNS servers don’t suck yard after yard of floppy folivore phallus, like those of a certain wireless carrier. To configure your Windows Mobile 5 device to take advantage of their service, start the Settings application and go to Connections, GPRS, and whatever your GPRS connection is called. Scroll down to the Primary and Secondary DNS text fields, and input 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220, respectively. Restart your phone, and send those randy sloths elsewhere. Yay! DNS, FTW, kthxbye.

Previous entries in this series: prequel, part 1, part 2, guide