Improve the web browsing of your Xiaomi smartphone by changing DNS

by Gadget Modder · Saturday, Feb 06 2021 2:40PM

web browsing of your Xiaomi

Although most of us come from the prehistoric era in technological terms, having experienced the birth of the first smartphones that compared to what the modern market offers us, were real snails in terms of fluidity. performance and speed of navigation, we find our current device always slow.

It seems almost an oxymoron to talk about slowness in navigation in these months where all you do is push the accelerator on the potential offered by 5G, but how many times have you happened to call up a website and wait infinite seconds, before the home is fully charged, almost as if the connection has been throttled. You may not know it but you can improve your connection simply by changing the DNS, and to do so you don’t have to be a geek to get a better web experience.

We will explain how to do the DNS change on a Xiaomi smartphone and/or in any case with MIUI ROM on board, but for better or worse the procedure can be replicated on any smartphone, although some nomenclature of the menu items may differ. First of all, however, let’s quickly explain what a DNS is, or a service that deals with “translating” domain names into IP addresses or vice versa, just like you would do with the address book on your smartphone, where you do not remember the telephone number of your contact and then type their name on the numeric keypad. To be clear, if we want to access www.aiomobilestuff.com, the DNS server will provide the browser with the IP address in which the website page is hosted.

Improve the web browsing of your Xiaomi smartphone by changing DNS

All you need to do is use a “private” DNS which, in addition to the advantage related to an improvement in the speed of querying queries, will also improve our security on the Internet, for example, DNS like those of Google uses more secure protocols offering more privacy, periodically deleting the data acquired as well as avoiding user tracking.

OK, we did the theory and so it’s time to move on to practice and to do it we will act in the following method:

Go to your smartphone settings and then to the Connection and sharing menu ;
Once inside, click on the Private DNS entry, which is usually set to Automatic ;
Now you need to select the Host Name of the Private DNS provider and enter the following address: dns.adguard.com

In this way you will be able to surf the Internet more safely, avoiding advertising, fraud, and any type of content harmful to your smartphone. However, you could have slowdowns under WiFi coverage, and then how to proceed in this case? Nothing could be simpler and we will explain it to you immediately: