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Ah, thanks!

 

I just had a thought... ISP's might actually be motivated to provide lousy DNS performance. It's an indirect way to throttle bandwidth.

 

Exactly!

 

So to set this up all I have to do is to change the dns settings on my router.....right?

 

OK, not a router tech guy at all so bear with me......

I've got a Linksys BEFSR41 wired 4 port router. On the setup tab it has the fields to put in the static dns 1, 2, and 3 numbers. These are all zero's. When I go to the status tab it shows address's for all 3. Do I simply put in the new address's (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) as DNS adress's 1 and 2?

 

That should be correct Scott. That's what I did on my D-Link.

 

I switched mine and rebooted. waited a few min and typed google.com in my browser and took a full 30 secs to load. Running FFv3.5.5. Bleh.

 

Nathan,

Sorry, but I am still here !

So you got the new Top Gear yet........lol



And I have to say things are definitely faster.

 

But that's because we're all doing a distributed denial of service attack on you.

 

Did you type the 8s correctly? :eek6: :lol:

Maybe it's FireFox - it always takes that long to load on my PC!

 

keep in mind, FF caches pages. When you navigate to the same page, but, the DNS is new, it goes.... "WTF mate!!". I think clearing my cache would have been a better test. All is well now.

 

You could download namebench to compare your ISP's DNS with Googles.

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