Hazy Arc
join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC | OpenDNS
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Of course switching to OpenDNS temporarily (or permanently, if you like their service) should help users.
In this day and age, it is foolish to use your ISP's DNS servers. |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
| said by Hazy Arc  :In this day and age, it is foolish to use your ISP's DNS servers. They work for me:
First pair are ATTIS, which are assigned to my connection by 'at&t Yahoo! HSI'.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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SLD
Premium
join:2002-04-17 | reply to Hazy Arc
Just like using your ISPs email service. |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA | Not quite. |
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Mactron
el camino Real
Premium
join:2001-12-16
CM94sv
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Yup your ISP is just a big Dumb pipe. No matter what they think they are. 
Open DNS and Gmail here. 
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If only the Verizon CSRs worked this well. |
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bac522
join:2003-08-04
Manchester, NH
1 edit | reply to SLD
Re: OpenDNS
Yeah...you can use gmail instead which never has problems either ...oh wait I guess the 4 hours of downtime gmail had this week doesn't matter! Stupid responses...service providers are just as capable or not as capable of providing services as those who worship companies like google! Everyone can has downtime at one time or another! |
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maartena
Stacked.
Premium
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA | reply to NormanS
Until they get bought out, or you move outside of their territory, after which you get to update your family and friends with a new email address.
ISP-independent email ftw  |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
1 edit | The comment was about using another DNS provider be the same as using another email provider. It is not quite the same thing, no matter how you cut, slice, or dice it.
Whether you use your ISP's DNS, or not, is more a matter of whether your ISP's DNS servers are doing the job, or not. If their DNS is broken, you will have trouble accessing the Internet.
Whether you use your ISP's email, or not, is a matter of personal convenience (unless the ISP email is as broken as the ISP DNS).
Neither my ISP DNS servers, nor my ISP email give me any grief (I've had more grief from third party email service providers than my ISP email).
I use my ISP's DNS servers because they work as well as any other DNS servers.
I don't use my ISP's email because it is inconvenient to be tied to them by the email domain.
So my assessment stand: "Not quite the same".
P.S. My ISP (Pacific Bell) was bought! My ISP email address is still <%User_ID%@pacbell.net>. Road Runner did not do as Comcast did in their respective Adephia buyouts (former Adelphia users with the same User_ID as Comcast users, had to sign up an email address with a new User_ID name, not just a new domain. Not so with Road Runner).
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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