Speed up web browsing with OpenDNS

A passing thought

For those of us that are on wireless, with the router configured as an access point, don't do this. With that kind of a setup, your router takes the role of the DNS server of your LAN...

There is only one good address for the DNS server for these people, and that is their router. Leave the secondary open.

Adding this tweak will only "confuse" your router.

Just a passing thought!

PB
 
When it comes to DNS Fast is not nearly as important as accurate.

I use it at work (not by choice) and I have had trouble with accessing some domains because the DNS records are not up to date. For months I could not get to bellsouth.com

Frankly DNS should be DNS and the easiest place to get DNS is from your ISP. Since that should be the closest server to you how could anything else be faster?

It is a good idea to have a couple of Public DNS server IP addresses stored for when your IPS drops its servers which happened to Bell south a couple of years ago.
 
PurpleBubble said:
For those of us that are on wireless, with the router configured as an access point, don't do this. With that kind of a setup, your router takes the role of the DNS server of your LAN...

There is only one good address for the DNS server for these people, and that is their router. Leave the secondary open.

Adding this tweak will only "confuse" your router.

Just a passing thought!

PB
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I have wireless and it wont let me change it,already tried.
 
Well, so far it seems to be working better on my main computer that's hooked directly through my wireless router to the cable modem. I tried it on my old computer that's solely wireless, and while it works, it doesn't seem to be any faster or slower either way. That might have more to do with the fact that my old compter is an antique vs. anything else. She's a slow old beast no matter what. However, I'd have to check it out on my main computer for a couple of days to be able to make a fair judgement. As such, I'll leave the settings in for now and post my perceptions tomorrow.
 
DaveKDEN said:
Doesn't really replace your cable.
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Perhaps not, and I didn't say it did ... but this sounds like it would be more beneficial to dsl and twisted pair users before it would do much good for broadband.

99 percent of the time, my system loads webpages fast enough. I don't need to be sending my IP address to some random remote computer server bank where they can log that IP for whatever use they desire later.

Thanks but I'll stick with what I got. :)
 
DNS is DNS and it does not matter if you have cable or DSL of which either one can be faster than the other depending on where you are in relation to your ISP's equipment.

DNS is a database of Domain names and IP addresses.

You computer does not understand www.sim-outhouse.com it only understands numbers as in IP Addresses. In order for your browser to find the Sim Outhouse it has to Query the DNS server to find out what the current IP Address is. The DNS server tells you browser what the IP address is and then your Browser does an "IP Get" to connect to the website.


So the only way to save time in DNS is to speed up the transmission time from your PC to the DNS server.

Think of DNS as the Internets Phone Book and each router (DSL or Cable) has an IP address assigned to it that is basically its own unique phone number as it should not be duplicated anywhere. (yes I know it can be duplicated but lets not muddy the waters)
 
I hate to bust your bubble here but I am on a wireless Linksys router and there isn't one problem in that area. I have 2 towers and two laptops. The laps are both wireless and no problem in that area.My router must be confused like you said....Mike
PurpleBubble said:
For those of us that are on wireless, with the router configured as an access point, don't do this. With that kind of a setup, your router takes the role of the DNS server of your LAN...

There is only one good address for the DNS server for these people, and that is their router. Leave the secondary open.

Adding this tweak will only "confuse" your router.

Just a passing thought!

PB
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I at the moment have 2 boxes peer to peer
i did the recommendations on one
they use the same modem
did speed it up a bit
H
 
I haven not tried openDNS yet, but after looking around at what people were saying about it, I found a utility called fastcache. Basically, it creates your own local DNS server using previous lookups from sites you visit.

I've played around a bit with it tonight and I can definitely see an improvement in speed.
 
hey_moe said:
I hate to bust your bubble here but I am on a wireless Linksys router and there isn't one problem in that area. I have 2 towers and two laptops. The laps are both wireless and no problem in that area.My router must be confused like you said....Mike
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hey_moe,

I did say that it will not work if the router is configured as an access point, I'm not referring to a normal wireless router configuration, there is a difference. You're an IT technician, right? So am I so you should know this.

A simple post like the one you started this thread with, only serves to confuse people. You might wanna be a bit more thorough/carefull here. You carry a lot of clout here, so chances are that people will go with what you said just because you're very knowledgeable hardware-wise. Networking is something different alltogether.

Bubble not busted and still purple! :icon_lol:

Cheers,

PB
 
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