said by technologiq:As others have said, I would definitely consider moving AWAY from Charters DNS servers.
You can go with Google DNS or any other but I suggest running NameBench (»code.google.com/p/namebench/) or something similar to figure out which will get you the best performance.
Note that some of these providers also do hijacking but you can tell namebench not to bother with those.
I'd recommend making sure your internet connection is idle for the most part before running this test as it has yielded different results for me depending on my usage.
Almost exactly what I would suggest except I'd suggest NOT using Googles DNS just because it's Google and everybody thinks it's the greatest thing since the invention of the internet!
On ANY connection/ISP I've ever tested using »
www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm Google hasn't been any where near the top in the results. For that matter, neither has OpenDNS and I don't use either!
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The Firefox alternative.
»www.mozilla.org/projects ··· amonkey/said by Chubbysumo:then why do I have to go and reset this every time I clear my cache and cookies? It says its modem MAC based, but every damn time I clear my cookies, I lose the settings and end up back at the charter/yahoo web search for bad addresses.
If you're using IE and have CrapCleaner, do you have CC set to clean cookies AND index .dat files?
If using Firefox or some other browser that has the option for cleaning Site Preferences, do you have that checked to do so? If so, uncheck that.
I'm fairly sure you know of those things though?
said by DocDrew:said by Chubbysumo:then why do I have to go and reset this every time I clear my cache and cookies? It says its modem MAC based, but every damn time I clear my cookies, I lose the settings and end up back at the charter/yahoo web search for bad addresses.
Don't know, but I don't have that problem and I clear all my cookies when I shut down my browser.
Although make sure after you opt-out to give it a few minutes (up a hour) for the settings to propagate through the ISPs servers, then reset your modem, release/renew your IP lease, and/or reset your router (since some don't properly clear old IP leases correctly).
Man! All that over cookies, huh?