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Best latency isn't chosen for Windows devices

Hello, I have 6 devices connected to my DNS profile, two of which are iOS, another two are Android and two are Windows 11 PCs.

I noticed that loading pages is much snappier on the Android and iOS phones as opposed to the Ethernet-connected Windows PCs. So I tried https://ping.nextdns.io and discovered that all the phones select the ultralow connection with the least latency (which makes sense), while both Windows PCs  select the same anycast connection which isn't even the best anycast. I've searched everywhere for what I can do to force a  connection with ultralow on Windows with no luck.

Here is a sample diag. from my Windows PC without then with NextDNS. Thanks for the help.

Without NextDNS: https://nextdns.io/diag/92a31ae0-fdb7-11ef-b9b2-eb8b35eb8042

With NextDNS: https://nextdns.io/diag/59649af0-fdb8-11ef-a89c-03f1be9e1548

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    • yasserror
    • 2 days ago
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    In case anyone has that same issue. It works if you use YogaDNS. But I really didn't want to rely on any extra software that I have to install. So I'll still wait on how to make ultralow work directly from Windows' settings.

    • yasserror
    • 2 days ago
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    I found a workaround, ultralow can be forced if you set up NextDNS via the YogaDNS windows client and not from Windows settings. In fact, you can return Windows 11 DNS settings to "Automatic" to avoid any conflict with YogaDNS.

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