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From: Richard Kettlewell on 4 Jun 2010 14:31
me32(a)privacy.net (R) writes:
> So, how best to proceed? She's reverted to using the horribly
> slow DNS relay service for now.

Wait a couple of days, go back the to the Google DNS servers, don't tell
anyone.

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From: Jim on 4 Jun 2010 16:37
R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote:

> Mum is sharing a network with some Windows users and they
> are insinuating that her Mac network configuration is adversely
> affecting their connectivity, even after she's turned her machine
> off!

Which should prove that they are idio...seeing things that aren't there.

Conor may be foul-mouthed but he's right that OpenDNS is worth a try -
the values are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

Jim
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From: Conor on 5 Jun 2010 07:11
On 05/06/2010 11:44, R wrote:
> Richard Kettlewell<rjk(a)greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> me32(a)privacy.net (R) writes:
>>> So, how best to proceed? She's reverted to using the horribly
>>> slow DNS relay service for now.
>>
>> Wait a couple of days, go back the to the Google DNS servers, don't tell
>> anyone.
>
> That's what I'd be tempted to do. I've not been overly impressed
> by DNS relay as implemented by cheap domestic routers. I think
> it's an option to avoid if possible.

There is no DNS relay on cheap routers.

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From: Adrian C on 5 Jun 2010 13:59
On 04/06/2010 19:07, R wrote:
> Mum is sharing a network with some Windows users and they
> are insinuating that her Mac network configuration is adversely
> affecting their connectivity, even after she's turned her machine
> off!
>
> What she did, upon my advice, was set her machine to use
> Google's public DNS servers. Previously she was using the
> router's DNS relay service, but it was very slow. The change
> made things much much better for her (pages loaded faster),
> but apparently worse for them.

Presumably worse for them, because she now is successful in pulling data
through the shared connection and enjoying the bandwidth, while their
machines are still struggling at the first hurdle of sending DNS
requests to their own ISP. Given that the other machines are Windows
based, that might not be the only traffic of theirs currently in
progress. (malware)

Also check is that there are no clash of machine IP addresses, and if
wired - that everyone is connecting at the same ethernet interface speed.

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Adrian C
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