GhengisKhan
Supreme [H]ardness
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- May 16, 2005
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I just thought I'd drop a note here for anyone who doesn't know, (and yes, I did a search for it) If it's taking you a while to load different web pages, and you can't quite figure out why, it may not be your fault. Your ISP's DNS server could be (and probably is) overloaded. I was having this issue for the longest time, until I was listening to some of the old In the Trenches podcasts that I have (sys admin podcast) and they mentioned a website, http://www.opendns.com
All I did was to go there and open up my router admin page and entered in the IP's for the DNS servers that they have listed on opendns then restarted my PC (which now that I think about it, I probably didn't have to do, but I had updates to push anyway), and it HALVED the load times on nearly every site I visit. Again, this is mainly if you notice a lag between when you click a link and when the page starts to load up, it's not a web accelerator or software of any kind, it's just using an off-site dns server instead of the ones that your ISP connects you to by default, which are normally overloaded and using old hardware anyway.
The difference blew my mind, and I just had to share this with the rest of you.
All I did was to go there and open up my router admin page and entered in the IP's for the DNS servers that they have listed on opendns then restarted my PC (which now that I think about it, I probably didn't have to do, but I had updates to push anyway), and it HALVED the load times on nearly every site I visit. Again, this is mainly if you notice a lag between when you click a link and when the page starts to load up, it's not a web accelerator or software of any kind, it's just using an off-site dns server instead of the ones that your ISP connects you to by default, which are normally overloaded and using old hardware anyway.
The difference blew my mind, and I just had to share this with the rest of you.