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I've noticed the exact opposite. It can take 15 seconds for my iPad to connect to the store over wifi. Similar results on my Windows desktop and my Apple lapto

by KC8ZKF 12y ago

I've noticed the exact opposite. It can take 15 seconds for my iPad to connect to the store over wifi. Similar results on my Windows desktop and my Apple laptop. A download will fail at least a third of the time. If I'm downloading more than one thing, or the download is large, say a movie, I almost always have to restart the download. Television shows continually reset themselves as unwatched, or split themselves into two seasons. Items that are downloaded to the computers or devices suddenly make themselves "unavailable" and have to be downloaded again.

js2 12y ago
Any chance you're using third-party DNS servers and not your ISP's?
- coherentpony 12y ago
  Funny you mention that. I had awful service with AT&T's DNS servers. After I switched to using Google's everything's run as quick as a button.
  - js2 12y ago
    Not using your ISP's DNS can confound CDNs. In particular, I had to revert to my ISP's DNS servers from Google's specifically because my AppleTV was unable to stream movies otherwise. This was when Google DNS first launched, but you might give it a shot. I happen to have a router running dnsmasq, so I could use different upstream DNS servers depending upon the query (i.e. route CDN domain queries to my ISP and everything else to Google), but I found it not worth the trouble. TWC's DNS isn't that bad... I do override their search page for non-existant domains with NXDOMAIN however.
    - coherentpony 12y ago
      That's useful information that I didn't know. Thanks for sharing.
    - rdl 12y ago
      This is why anycast is better than DNS for cdn, IMHO :)
      - Hengjie 12y ago
        How easy is it to set up any cast as opposed to geo-DNS routing?
  - yeukhon 12y ago
    That's exactly the reason I haven't switched away from my ISP's DNS because some services do run significantly better over my ISP's DNS instead of the non-ISP ones.
- KC8ZKF 12y ago
  No. I am using my ISP's DNS servers obtained through DHCP. Also I have no problems with YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon instant video, etc. EDIT: Before anybody suggests that I try different DNS servers, I have.

by KC8ZKF 12y ago

js2 12y ago

Any chance you're using third-party DNS servers and not your ISP's?

coherentpony 12y ago
Funny you mention that. I had awful service with AT&T's DNS servers. After I switched to using Google's everything's run as quick as a button.
- js2 12y ago
  Not using your ISP's DNS can confound CDNs. In particular, I had to revert to my ISP's DNS servers from Google's specifically because my AppleTV was unable to stream movies otherwise. This was when Google DNS first launched, but you might give it a shot. I happen to have a router running dnsmasq, so I could use different upstream DNS servers depending upon the query (i.e. route CDN domain queries to my ISP and everything else to Google), but I found it not worth the trouble. TWC's DNS isn't that bad... I do override their search page for non-existant domains with NXDOMAIN however.
  - coherentpony 12y ago
    That's useful information that I didn't know. Thanks for sharing.
  - rdl 12y ago
    This is why anycast is better than DNS for cdn, IMHO :)
    - Hengjie 12y ago
      How easy is it to set up any cast as opposed to geo-DNS routing?
- yeukhon 12y ago
  That's exactly the reason I haven't switched away from my ISP's DNS because some services do run significantly better over my ISP's DNS instead of the non-ISP ones.
KC8ZKF 12y ago
No. I am using my ISP's DNS servers obtained through DHCP. Also I have no problems with YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon instant video, etc. EDIT: Before anybody suggests that I try different DNS servers, I have.