Using Google DNS [Was: Agile Web Solutions - 1Password]
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From: Mark on 21 Jun 2010 16:51 On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:49:30 +0100, Michael Dines wrote (in article <1jkgh49.1fccxfb1wwdtkeN%mjcnospamheredines(a)gmailnospam.com>): > Mark <captain.black(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> As of a week or 10 days ago, browsing has become very slow, and Firefox can >> be very unresponsive - sometimes taking several/many seconds to open links >> (and sometimes not at all). In the meantime I have restarted a couple of >> times and also repaired permissions without any change. I wonder if >> switching >> to Google DNS might help? >> >> I was always fine with Virgin cable, but now with O2 this behavior crops up >> with increasing frequency. >> >> Cheers ... Mark > > As far as I know this is a known issue with O2. I had trouble with their > DNS soon after I chaned to them (also from Virgin) so I now use opendns > (www.opendns.com) which is fine and free. > > Also because I've got an NAS that needs to be accessed from the internet > I use Dynamic DNS which routes traffic to my NAS if O2 change the IP > address. Ah - thanks! I'll investigate. Cheers ... Mark
From: Mark on 8 Jul 2010 03:40 On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:51:26 +0100, Mark wrote (in article <0001HW.C8458F5E003976C3B01AD9AF(a)eu.Usenet-News.net>): > On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:49:30 +0100, Michael Dines wrote > (in article <1jkgh49.1fccxfb1wwdtkeN%mjcnospamheredines(a)gmailnospam.com>): > >> Mark <captain.black(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> As of a week or 10 days ago, browsing has become very slow, and Firefox can >>> be very unresponsive - sometimes taking several/many seconds to open links >>> (and sometimes not at all). In the meantime I have restarted a couple of >>> times and also repaired permissions without any change. I wonder if >>> switching >>> to Google DNS might help? >>> >>> I was always fine with Virgin cable, but now with O2 this behavior crops up >>> with increasing frequency. >>> >>> Cheers ... Mark >> >> As far as I know this is a known issue with O2. I had trouble with their >> DNS soon after I chaned to them (also from Virgin) so I now use opendns >> (www.opendns.com) which is fine and free. >> >> Also because I've got an NAS that needs to be accessed from the internet >> I use Dynamic DNS which routes traffic to my NAS if O2 change the IP >> address. > > Ah - thanks! I'll investigate. > > Cheers ... Mark > I tried using Google DNS (by adding them DNS Servers field in System Prefs / Network / Advanced / DNS). There seemed to be no way to delete the O2 DNS settings that were there at the time, but they became grayed-out, and they did seem to vanish after using the new settings for a while. Google DNS was awful. It hardly worked at all. When (and I don't know when or why) the O2 settings vanished it connected once or twice, then wouldn't connect at all. Searching, I found namebench <http://code.google.com/p/namebench/> which is an app that checks out a number of free DNS servers to see which is best for your location. After running it, it gave me these results <http://img.skitch.com/20100708-d3matcsf4maddwe6g17m6wwpsk.jpg> and I'm now using UltraDNS and BT-6 GB (as suggested by the app). I am definitely seeing less of the previous time-out issues I was before (though a couple are still there), and things seem a lot smoother. This time the O2 settings are grayed-out, but are still listed in that field. The only issue now is that my MacBook drops the WiFi connection to the router very occasionally (maybe less than once per browsing session. Cheers ... Mark
From: Phillip Jones on 8 Jul 2010 09:21 Mark wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:51:26 +0100, Mark wrote > (in article<0001HW.C8458F5E003976C3B01AD9AF(a)eu.Usenet-News.net>): > >> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:49:30 +0100, Michael Dines wrote >> (in article<1jkgh49.1fccxfb1wwdtkeN%mjcnospamheredines(a)gmailnospam.com>): >> >>> Mark<captain.black(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> As of a week or 10 days ago, browsing has become very slow, and Firefox can >>>> be very unresponsive - sometimes taking several/many seconds to open links >>>> (and sometimes not at all). In the meantime I have restarted a couple of >>>> times and also repaired permissions without any change. I wonder if >>>> switching >>>> to Google DNS might help? >>>> >>>> I was always fine with Virgin cable, but now with O2 this behavior crops up >>>> with increasing frequency. >>>> >>>> Cheers ... Mark >>> >>> As far as I know this is a known issue with O2. I had trouble with their >>> DNS soon after I chaned to them (also from Virgin) so I now use opendns >>> (www.opendns.com) which is fine and free. >>> >>> Also because I've got an NAS that needs to be accessed from the internet >>> I use Dynamic DNS which routes traffic to my NAS if O2 change the IP >>> address. >> >> Ah - thanks! I'll investigate. >> >> Cheers ... Mark >> > I tried using Google DNS (by adding them DNS Servers field in System Prefs / > Network / Advanced / DNS). There seemed to be no way to delete the O2 DNS > settings that were there at the time, but they became grayed-out, and they > did seem to vanish after using the new settings for a while. > > Google DNS was awful. It hardly worked at all. When (and I don't know when or > why) the O2 settings vanished it connected once or twice, then wouldn't > connect at all. > > Searching, I found namebench<http://code.google.com/p/namebench/> which is > an app that checks out a number of free DNS servers to see which is best for > your location. After running it, it gave me these results > <http://img.skitch.com/20100708-d3matcsf4maddwe6g17m6wwpsk.jpg> and I'm now > using UltraDNS and BT-6 GB (as suggested by the app). I am definitely seeing > less of the previous time-out issues I was before (though a couple are still > there), and things seem a lot smoother. This time the O2 settings are > grayed-out, but are still listed in that field. > > The only issue now is that my MacBook drops the WiFi connection to the router > very occasionally (maybe less than once per browsing session. > > Cheers ... Mark > > > > OpenDNS is good. -- Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it" http://www.phillipmjones.net mailto:pjones1(a)kimbanet.com
From: Andy Hewitt on 8 Jul 2010 09:42 Phillip Jones <pjones1(a)kimbanet.com> wrote: > Mark wrote: [..] > > Searching, I found namebench<http://code.google.com/p/namebench/> which > > is an app that checks out a number of free DNS servers to see which is > > best for your location. After running it, it gave me these results > > <http://img.skitch.com/20100708-d3matcsf4maddwe6g17m6wwpsk.jpg> and I'm > > now using UltraDNS and BT-6 GB (as suggested by the app). I am > > definitely seeing less of the previous time-out issues I was before > > (though a couple are still there), and things seem a lot smoother. This > > time the O2 settings are grayed-out, but are still listed in that field. > > > > The only issue now is that my MacBook drops the WiFi connection to the > > router very occasionally (maybe less than once per browsing session. > > > > Cheers ... Mark > > > > > > > > > OpenDNS is good. It says Google is my best one. -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: Phillip Jones on 8 Jul 2010 10:09
Andy Hewitt wrote: > Phillip Jones<pjones1(a)kimbanet.com> wrote: > >> Mark wrote: > [..] >>> Searching, I found namebench<http://code.google.com/p/namebench/> which >>> is an app that checks out a number of free DNS servers to see which is >>> best for your location. After running it, it gave me these results >>> <http://img.skitch.com/20100708-d3matcsf4maddwe6g17m6wwpsk.jpg> and I'm >>> now using UltraDNS and BT-6 GB (as suggested by the app). I am >>> definitely seeing less of the previous time-out issues I was before >>> (though a couple are still there), and things seem a lot smoother. This >>> time the O2 settings are grayed-out, but are still listed in that field. >>> >>> The only issue now is that my MacBook drops the WiFi connection to the >>> router very occasionally (maybe less than once per browsing session. >>> >>> Cheers ... Mark >>> >>> >>> >>> >> OpenDNS is good. > > It says Google is my best one. > I have a setup for My ISP DNS, Open DNS, Google DNS, some days, My ISP's the fastest, sometimes OpenDNS is, sometimes Google DNS is. I set to one or the other and works like gang buster for a Bit then it slows down. Then I have to switch to the next. -- Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it" http://www.phillipmjones.net mailto:pjones1(a)kimbanet.com |