Lee, as always many thanks. Just Friday I had two men here trying to set up the three server's, one thing they downloaded was a program called dyndns, I believe. I am going to talk to them about what you have just sent, I am sure this will help.
John On Jan 16, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Jan 15, 2011, at 11:22 PM, John Robinson wrote: > >> I can't say for sure but of late the 50 meg. download has some issues. Each >> time you use Speedtest.net indeed you are getting the 50 but when you go to >> a site you sit there and wait and wait, then it loads. I don't know if >> Insight is having to choke it down to accommodate some sites or if there is >> some other issue, I will call Monday but it is ridiculous the latency, even >> with email. Now the Google Finance site loads in an instant, I just loaded >> the Lexus site and it was instant, Ford was instant, GM instant, Progressive >> instant, Geico instant, Amazon waited for many seconds, Canon a small delay, >> Dodge a slight delay. Some of these are there as soon as you let off the >> key, others have a slight hesitancy and some take forever. > > What DNS are you using? I have found that changing away from the Insight DNS > to OpenDNS or the Google Public DNS makes a big difference. Another thing you > could try is to add sites you always use to your local /etc/hosts file. That > bypasses DNS entirely because your machine always looks there first. > > But, there's not much you can do about the inherent latency of the Internet > and the servers you talk to. That's why I don't think faster connections are > such a big deal, unless you're running lots of computers or are constantly > downloading mega-files from a really fast site. > > There are a few drastic things you can do if you're sufficiently rabid for > speed, and I've tried some them just to tinker. For example, you can use > your own caching DNS server or even a Squid proxy. They made a noticeable > difference back in the halcyon dial-up days of yore, but stopped being so > useful when broadband arrived. > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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