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Originally Posted by token
I'll bite - how do you define 10x?
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I've always wondered that. I have to admit, my router is configured to use OpenDNS (not because they are faster than Be*s, more that Be went through a phase a few months back where DNS was decidedly flaky and I never reconfigured my router to use Be*s again). But, I've always wondered how they can claim that faster DNS will make your net experience that much better.
Let me explain that. For each connection, the router may have to do a DNS lookup for the destination IP. Switching to open DNS may provide a 1 or 2 millisecond time saving. However, when calling up the average web page, the computer may only do 10-20 lookups. Even on a forum where there are a lot of images, it may only do 30 or 40. This is a 30 or 40 millisecond saving in page load time. Something the average human would barely notice.