Article about DNS settings

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#1 Post by **gator** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:17 pm

I read this article about DNS settings, and want to change my DNS settings to see if there is any truth to what is said.

http://sheeped.com/blog/2006/11/01/sick ... ction-dns/

Thought this would be of interest here - I am going to check this.

bigtiger · #2 Post by **bigtiger** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:45 pm

Just tried. No perceived speed-up. I guess the DNS cache with XP can do the same trick, right?

#3 Post by **GomJabbar** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:03 pm

I saw this on Cingular's forum awhile back. I tried it for my cellular data connection as I was having latency issues. I could not really tell a difference. In my case I believe the cellular service itself was the main problem. However, other users on the Cingular forum reported faster browsing speeds using Open DNS.

Musti · #4 Post by **Musti** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:11 am

bigtiger wrote:Just tried. No perceived speed-up. I guess the DNS cache with XP can do the same trick, right?

Depends. I disable DNS caching, put my ISP's DNS (there's usually two DNS entries) into my router config, and use a custom Hosts file to block ads. Everything is much faster.

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