Ever since I got the iphone 5 I have had dreadful wifi speeds at home, but only when downloading from the App Store. The Speedtest app always showed fast results, however. Last night I noticed that my router was using googles DNS servers (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4) which is a change I made a year ago without any issues. I then went back to using my default ISP DNS settings and I now have great speeds when downloading from the App store. I don't want to get into conspiracy issues, but others with this problem may want to see if this helps.
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Wifi slowness due to google dns servers?
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using DNS services like Google or OpenDNS can often result in spurious slow-ness. OpenDNS even openly state that you might get poor results in some instance when using their service.
unless there is a specific need for using them I would always stick to your ISP supplied DNS.
unless there is a specific need for using them I would always stick to your ISP supplied DNS.