<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Here's David Pogue's article on one DNS service:<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/technology/personaltech/19pogue.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=open%20dns&st=Search">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/technology/personaltech/19pogue.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=open%20dns&st=Search</a></span><br><br>And how to sign up:<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.opendns.com/">http://www.opendns.com/</a></span><br><br>Ron Force<br>Moscow ID USA<br><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Paul Rumelhart <godshatter@yahoo.com><br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Saundra Lund <v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, September 15, 2010 9:11:57 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Frontier (was Verizon) DSL<br></font><br>
<br>The rest of the problems are probably related to network congestion, but <br>the problem with web pages taking longer to be found is probably because <br>their DNS servers are overloaded. DNS servers are basically a directory <br>that converts a human-readable domain name (like <a target="_blank" href="http://yahoo.com">yahoo.com</a> or whatever) <br>into it's actual IP address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx). I've found that Time <br>Warner's DNS servers are often overloaded. You might try specifying one <br>of the free DNS servers in your network settings rather than your ISP <br>DNS servers. Google has a couple that can be used. I think they are <br>8.8.8.8 and 4.4.4.4, but I could be remembering wrong. You can also add <br>certain entries to your hosts file on your system. I'm not sure where <br>that is on Windows, but it's usually in /etc/hosts on linux or Unix. If <br>you have a site that takes a long time to
be found, then if you can find <br>it's address you can add it to your hosts file to make it faster <br>loading. On linux, you do an nslookup on the domain name. I don't know <br>what you do on Windows. The only downside to that is if they change the <br>address of the server behind the human-readable name you won't be able <br>to connect until you update or remove that entry from your hosts file.<br><br>Paul<br><br>Saundra Lund wrote:<br>> I couldn't think of a better place than here to ask . . . <br>><br>> For those of you with Frontier/Verizon DSL "high speed" Internet, have any<br>> of you noticed things being slower?<br>><br>> I don't know the technical details of my question so I'm not sure where the<br>> problem lies (any explanation would be appreciated), but I've been noticing<br>> that Web pages are taking longer to be "found" after I click on hyperlinks<br>> I've been using -- I've checked, and the
links are still correct. Streaming<br>> video often doesn't seems as smooth as it used to be, downloading songs from<br>> Amazon & iTunes seems to be a bit slower, and uploading seems to have slowed<br>> to a crawl. At first, I thought it was just me/my computer, but I was<br>> ranting to myself the other night, and my dh mentioned that he'd noticed it,<br>> too. I checked my laptop & I'm seeing the same thing there.<br>><br>> I'm getting various results on speed & ping tests, not that I know what<br>> those mean, but they are tests that I've run fairly regularly (every month<br>> or two), and I've never seen results -- especially ping & upload -- scores<br>> as poor as I seem to regularly be seeing recently.<br>><br>> Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.<br>><br>><br>> Saundra<br>><br>> =======================================================<br>>
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