Leo grabbed his laptop. “Teach me.”
Inside the settings menu, it looked like a spaceship cockpit. Tabs read: 5G Status, Wi-Fi, Security, Advanced.
“Don’t change the admin password yet,” Mira said. “First, kill the Lag Monster.”
“Now type the penguin numbers,” she said.
Below the boxes was a red button: .
He turned to Mira. “The penguin… it worked.”
Leo opened a new tab. Websites loaded like lightning. He launched his game. The ping counter read . No stutter. His character glided across the map.
The screen showed: [Automatic] (selected) Primary DNS: (grayed out: 203.0.113.1) Secondary DNS: (grayed out: 203.0.113.2) “That’s your provider’s slow phonebook,” Mira said. “Change it to Manual .”