Airwolf
Merry Christmas. Shtter was full.
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join:2001-10-30
Windsor, ON
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 ·Cogeco Cable
| High Latency Cogeco DNS Server
Just wanted to point out that Cogeco's DNS Server "kenobi" is racking up some high latency.
Pinging 24.226.10.193 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 24.226.10.193: bytes=32 time=1553ms TTL=251
Reply from 24.226.10.193: bytes=32 time=3093ms TTL=251
Reply from 24.226.10.193: bytes=32 time=2960ms TTL=251
Reply from 24.226.10.193: bytes=32 time=3249ms TTL=251
Ping statistics for 24.226.10.193:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1553ms, Maximum = 3249ms, Average = 2713ms |
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Snickerdo
Premium
join:2001-02-28
Niagara Falls, ON
| I know one of the DNS servers was on the fritz not too long ago, was randomly not responding to requests and such. May have been this one, though it could have been one of the others.
This is all the more reason why you should run your own DNS server 
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Comfrtbly
join:1999-08-31
Peterborough, ON | reply to Airwolf
I gave up on the Cogeco DNS servers. I use OpenDNS on all my computers, and my router. |
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urbanriot
join:2004-10-18
St Catharines, ON
·Cogeco Cable
1 edit | said by Comfrtbly  :I gave up on the Cogeco DNS servers. I use OpenDNS on all my computers, and my router. Yea, we got that from your other endorsements; however Cogeco's other 3 DNS servers are considerably faster than OpenDNS' third party, filtered and moderated DNS... and personally I prefer to use 'local' DNS servers. |
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fasttrak
fasttrak
join:2001-03-08
Windsor, ON
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Don't know if this is related to your problem or not, but I had the same slow page loads in our area. Called Cogeco, and the recording said there had been an "outage" last week sometime around here, and the fix was to press the RESET button on the back of the modem for about 10 seconds. Seems to have helped here...FWIW |
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Comfrtbly
join:1999-08-31
Peterborough, ON
1 edit |  reply to urbanriot
I'm not trying to "endorse" anything, was trying to contribute. 
As far as Cogeco's DNS servers being faster, not from what I've experienced. |
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urbanriot
join:2004-10-18
St Catharines, ON
·Cogeco Cable
| Ah, okay, I saw two threads where you suggested it, the other being not entirely helpful, so I figured you were trying to shill it.
In any case, you might feel warm and fuzzy when you use OpenDNS, but Cogeco's servers are at least 1/2 the time of OpenDNS's which you'd expect since they're more local... OpenDNS's server is about 10 hops or so, so that makes sense.
I can understand if, for whatever bizarre reason, you're having difficulty with Cogeco's four DNS servers that you might want to use an alternative, but speed definitely doesn't play into things. |
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exseven
Premium,VIP
join:2003-05-23
Beamsville, ON
| reply to Airwolf
i dont think that it makes a HUGE difference...
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