Cloudflare Announcing Beta for WARP for macOS and Windows

I just found out that I cannot access my router when WARP is enabled. Doh!

krzemien said:

Quid for quo - as they say.

I am rather boring home user so do not really care if I get 50 or 70 Mb/s - as long as I do not feel the difference (and I currently don't). But yes, speeds are a tad lower than what I would get straight from ISP without this wizardry.

My SamKnows box is connected as an orphan, not as a pass-through device as expected (their router is rather dated - does not have GBe ports - and because SamKnows refused to upgrade it for me, I decided to leave it connected that way) and continues to report normal speeds.

Avg of 940Mb/s dropping down to bouncing between 38-250Mb/s is a bit much esp when grabbing a 50GB file (this was at 2am).

jh30uk said:

Avg of 940Mb/s dropping down to bouncing between 38-250Mb/s is a bit much esp when grabbing a 50GB file (this was at 2am).

My commiserations. Alas! As I wrote:

I am rather boring home user so do not really care if I get 50 or 70 Mb/s - as long as I do not feel the difference (and I currently don't).


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Callender said:

I reckon that maybe you need to use your ISP's DNS unencrypted with SamKnows. That's a privacy issue for me.

Not sure about it, I changed DNS configuration in the ISP router to Cloudflare servers and quite some time ago either. And that worked and does work fine.

So I think it's down to some misconfiguration somewhere, either router software (probably it's now dated, 2 years down the line) or within Cloudflare client.

Yeah, correct. To tell you the truth, how often do you fiddle with router's settings... ;-)

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Callender said:

The thing is that as far as I know (and I could be wrong) - changing DNS at router level makes no difference as DNS settings in windows over-ride it.

No, that's not correct, methinks.

Look at this (with some key information removed):

Router acts as DNS resolver - and its settings do matter.

This is Windows 8.1 and IPv4 domain - but I gather that this principle also applies in Windows 10 and IPv6.

True its one click to disabled it to enter Samknows App so no big deal but I got this for browsing speed (as per claims) and I see no difference.