never had trouble with google dns before but all of a sudden tripple my normal ping and constant dropped packets making gaming impossible and wrecking download or loading times for webpages. anyone else having trouble? any advice?
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Try cloudflare, or any other DNS provider? If you get consistent behavior it’s probably your ISP.
Odds of the problem occuring on Google’s end is lower than faults within your ISP’s network imo.
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ran dns bench found cloudflare 1.1.1.1 was getting much better performance switched to that. still getting dropped packets i agree most likly on my end like isp…or someone on my network downloading hard entire hard drives of porn or something
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Like Mach said, try others
9.9.9.9
1.1.1.1
Loads
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heeeeeeey no dropped packets averaging 13 ms with 50 test better then its ever been on 8.8.8.8 problems lasted a few hours but on the plus side i found a new faster dns for my location
btw, when diagnosing packet drops in the future, … try a tool called mtr, it’ll show you which network hop is the one with issues.
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In New Zealand, 8.8.8.8 resolves to somewhere near Sydney, ~32 ms ping, but Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 is ~6 ms, only 2 ms more than my router, and the same as my ISP’s DNS, which suggests they are the same. This hasn’t changed since 1.1.1.1 was started.
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or… in a nearby datacentre / town…
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quad 9 does malware filtering, so if you use that you probably would also want to use 1.1.1.2 as that is Cloudflare’s malware filtering DNS as well.
1.1.1.3 adds adult content filtering., though 1.0.0.3 (which is the secondary) actually has better ping on average by 1ms for me compared to 1.1.1.3
It takes 4ms to ping your router and back? Even on wifi it shouldn’t be that bad.
There’s old powerline adapters between PC and router.
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