[BNM] Sick of be broadband

[andrew holway]

and/or better router.

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:31 AM, David Pashley <david at davidpashley.com> wrote:
> On Mar 02, 2009 at 08:38, Alastair James praised the llamas by saying:
>> Hmmm..... I will switch my DNS over to opendns, although I dont
>> *think* its that, as its not look up times that are slow, its transfer
>> times. I.e. large images downloading bit by bit over a second or
>> more...
>>
>> However in general it seems slightly better this morning...
>>
> You might find it better to install a local caching DNS server in your
> machine and use that.
>
> DNS will only improve the time to start downloading an file. The smaller
> the files involved, the bigger the impact slow DNS has. Several
> mechanisms will mitigate the problem, like DNS caching in applications
> and connection keep-alives, like in HTTP 1.1.
>
> Improving DNS lookups will not make large downloads happen quicker; only
> more bandwidth will do that.
>
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