To customize your DNS server to #ziggostoring Android – Android World

Changing the DNS servers used, can ensure that your Internet connection with a specific type of fault goes again work. If that is the case with the big Ziggo failure in August 2015. Changing the DNS servers on Android you do so.

DNS servers

All providers own use DNS servers, but if for some reason a fault, makes sure that the Internet virtually inoperable. Modifying the DNS records for a PC or Mac is an option, but also your Android device must be adjusted. Even if no fault is going, use can be made of public DNS servers of Google

To change the DNS in Android you go through the following steps.

1. Go to Settings & gt;. Wi-Fi

2. Select the network you are connected to by pressing this long.

3. Choose “customize network ‘or to’ manage network settings (the name may vary by manufacturer.)

4. Tap advanced.

5. Click DHCP and change it to ‘static’ or ‘passive’ (also the name is dependent on manufacturer).

6. Look for DNS and fill in the first box in 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 in the second field.

7. Check the other institutions are often already completed. If that is the case, press Save and you’re done!

If nothing is filled in front of ‘IP address’ and ‘gateway’, then an IP address and gateway must be filled out, this depends on your modem or router. Often the gateway “192.168.1.1″, “192.168.0.1″ or “192.168.2.1″ and the IP address begins with the same three numbers and ending at a higher number, for example “192.168.0.114″ when the gateway 192.168 .0.1 ‘is.

8. Download Fing

9. Turn the application and see which IP address is being used.

10. Fill in the above IP address and the corresponding gateway.

11. Saving and internet it!

Google DNS

With these steps, do so by default use the DNS servers of Google and you will experience no or little affected by interference. In order to undo it, it is a matter of following the steps vice versa. It can basically do no harm to adjust these settings, as long as the initial settings again reset.

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Ruud Caris

Founder Androidworld.nl, gadget lover , Redbull drinker and Android enthusiast. Having started with the ADP1, now including Nexus 5 Nexus 7, Nexus and Google Glass.