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Archive for the Tag ‘opendns’

January 11, 2007

DNS Speed Testing Revisted

Allison Rhodes, the Community Manager over at OpenDNS was in touch about doing a customer profile on me for the OpenDNS website. I guess they do these kind of things if you blog about them and say nice things. They were particularly interested in commercial users of their service and I blogged about using [...]

January 6, 2007

OpenDNS continues to be awesome

I first blogged about using OpenDNS when I used it to make my Telus highspeed DSL go 3x faster. Now 6 months later, they’re even better. A couple of days ago I was updating the DNS systems at Sutton and I was having a problem with OpenDNS’s resolvers not updating fast enough. Turns out the [...]

July 25, 2006

How to make Telus highspeed go 3x faster…

Last weekend it peaked to about 36C here in Vancouver! So how did I spend such a beautiful hot summer weekend? I made my Telus highspeed go 3x faster by changing my DNS servers from Telus’ defaults to the ones provided by OpenDNS.
I’ve always hated Telus’ DNS servers. They are pitifully slow and this weekend [...]