open DNS and 311
Just got our Adelphia/Comcast high speed internet… its pretty nice to have real internet instead of that crap NTC provided… 4mbps up and 1.5mbps down… very nice to have…
Anyways, there have been several articles about broadband providers DNS servers lacking, as in they are slow at serving DNS requests… So as soon as I got our internet set up, i went in to the router and set it up to use OpenDNS’s DNS server which are faster, safer, and helpful… the DNS requests are much faster now it seems and one nice thing is that it will fix typos for you so say you type craigslist.og instead of craiglist.org, OpenDNS’s servers will automatically correct that for you… also their DNS servers will attempt to filter out phishing sites to help make your internet browsing a little bit safer… You can of course disable the correcting of domain names and preventing phishing sites in the preferences… to me it seems like everything does in fact load a bit faster than using Adelphias DNS servers… go here to set up your own openDNS…
Once i get my room/apartment cleaned up a little, i will take some pictures of the new place and post them up…
311 concert last night was pretty awesome… had a good time… was in the 3rd row which was a pretty good view… got some pictures that i will post up later…
But i need to get ready and head to my only class of the day…
later,
J!
UPDATE (response from Greg using OpenDNS): It’s like you read my mind. As we have spoken before, the server/Internet service provided here at my beloved institution is lacking. I got a good 30-40 percent bump by doing the openDNS deal.
