Comments on: Home Networking Tools, Tips and Tricks

By: samyakonline

samyakonline — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:27:58 +0000

This is very good information about networking. thanks

By: almvideos2

almvideos2 — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:24:17 +0000

dns made my intenet faster thanks

By: Ipokedu5

Ipokedu5 — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:05:11 +0000

That was so cool

By: Ipokedu5

Ipokedu5 — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:05:11 +0000

That was so cool

By: BeautyBuyNature

BeautyBuyNature — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:57:13 +0000

Thanks - I learned soooooooo much - Thanks

By: DrZarkloff

DrZarkloff — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:46:04 +0000

Kind of reminds me of how I’m making air conditioning tutorials in the nude.

By: BeautyBuyNature

BeautyBuyNature — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:57:13 +0000

Thanks - I learned soooooooo much - Thanks

By: alphaxion

alphaxion — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:41:42 +0000

I have been noticing some isp’s in the UK actually providing “invalid domain name” services where, if you enter any trash into the address bar and it doesn’t exist as a valid domain (either thru typo in the TLD or even just no website with that domain name) it will present a webpage to you saying it couldn’t find it, how about these other addresses (which are 99% sponsored ads, so the ISP is making money out of your typo) instead.

I would much rather get “page cannot be displayed” than “have some ads”, and the really horrible thing is that many of the ISPs that use it (tiscali, I’m looking at you) auto enroll you into it and you have to ask to be removed from it.. the worst thing is that some of the ISP’s will deny that you are even on it (that’s you again tiscali), and with repeated calls will relent and admit to it and then say they will remove you… only for the “service” to return a week or so later (tiscali, you’re at it again!!). That was a true story from a sales guy where I work who had that issue with his isp.

These dodgy practices are on the increase here in the uk, so be careful and if your ISP starts doing stuff like that, ditch them immediately - hitting them in their pocket is the only way they will learn.

By: cjh6793

cjh6793 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:35:19 +0000

Thanks! I can tell my speed is a bit faster…:)

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:17:19 +0000

I like using my ISP’s or other physically close/routed DNS servers that are less likely to suffer attack than large-scale, and currently free, services. I don’t see any performance increase from using OpenDNS, nor do I appreciate every domain name becoming pingable/resolving in order for them to offer search suggestions or typo correction. The type correction thing bothers me more than some of thier other “features” I mean why even bother teaching english or spelling in school if you never have to learn to spell anything correctly. This is possibly even more troublesome to older people who will keep typing the wrong thing, OpenDNS will keep helping them “make it work out” and then they’ll go to another computer, or the library that isn’t using OpenDNS and they’ll be lost. The porn block thing is cool, but only if you have a static IP and turn it on in your OpenDNS account. You can do allot of what they do yourself, internally on your own network, without the dependancy of an external service provider with Microsoft’s DNS Service, DNS Redirector, or SimpleDNS Plus

By: cjh6793

cjh6793 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:35:19 +0000

Thanks! I can tell my speed is a bit faster…:)

By: mikemoreno1375

mikemoreno1375 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:36:16 +0000

Poor Doggie….

By: 11spiderpig11

11spiderpig11 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:31:10 +0000

if i had that DNS my mom would block youtube and that would be bad…. to bad my mom doesn’t know how to work a computer

By: Nikiaf

Nikiaf — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:16:16 +0000

i’ve been using it for a while now and it’s great! i haven’t personally noticed a speed difference but maybe that’s just because i’ve been using it for so long :P

By: nickdford

nickdford — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:14:49 +0000

i use squid-cache as a dns-cache/proxy server :P
it’s an open source tool with loads of add-ons for things like parental control :)