Recently I switched my ISP from AT&T DSL (I know … what was I thinking) back to Comcast. The process went thru very quick and in 30 minutes my old cable modem was hooked up and provisioned and was seeing 23 Mb/s speeds. with 11ms response time.
But… wait. As soon as I started using it I realized that a lot of web pages were taking forever to load and I quickly remembered the old Comcast issue. Unreliable/slow DNS servers. And you need the DNS response before you can actually start HTTP transfer and see the page.
There are a lot of free name servers so I will list a few:
OpenDNS: 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220 (my choice)
AT&T and Level 3: 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2, 4.2.2.3
Google :8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4
I would recommend to set the Primary and Secondary from 2 different groups and make these changes on your router so any connected device will inherit the changes.
Problem solved. Happy browsing!
I would also add the OpenDNS.com dns servers
IP address:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
They allow you to have parental controls via DNS
That way, if you don’t want your kids ipod surfing xxx sites, you can block it via DNS.
Tim,
Absolutely agree. They are my preferred choice.