OpenDNS. Faster internet for your home.

    My isp at home is Comcast… wonderful company (I’m sure to some) but keeping my internet connection is about as slow and stable as a blind, one winged duck flying through a blizzard while eating a tootsie roll…. but I digress. Either way, about 2 months ago I started using the free public DNS servers at OpenDNS, and wow. My web browsing is noticeably faster and when it comes to the stability there is no comparison. I don’t think I have had an outage yet.
   Another cool feature (especially for those of you who have children at home) is the Adult Site Blocking. With this feature a known list of Adult oriented sites will be blocked by OpenDNS on networks you designate. It’s overall pretty easy to use..just change your automatically assigned DNS entries (from your ISP) to 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 or for instruction on setting it up on your router at home (I presonally have a Linksys WRT54g running DD-WRT see their help page:

http://www.opendns.com/support/category/2

Some other very nice features they offer besides faster DNS lookups is that they correct spelling errors so if you try to visit www.craigslist.or or www.yahoo.cmo they will correct it for you! Also, anti-phishing at the DNS level so if you try to visit that Bank America site in from the email you suspiciously got (even though you don’t have an account there) and you’ll see a Phishing Site Blocked message from OpenDNS.

Give OpenDNS a try by visiting their website or clicking on the icon to the right and get started. Enjoy.