The Gift of Safe
December 12th, 2007 by Giles SmithGive your friends and family the gift of a safer Internet: OpenDNS. It’s free and requires nothing to download or install.
I have been using OpenDNS for around 8 months now and I am definately impressed!. I have a Be Internet connection which is lovely and fast, but even then I noticed a dramatic speed increase in web page loading when changing from my ISP to OpenDNS. It feels like pages are already loading before I have even lifted my finger of the Enter key! Uptime is also amazing, I have only experienced one problem since switching and even then I am not entirely convinced I wasn’t being subjected to a DDOS attack.
The DNS package is rounded of with quite a spectacular array of tools found in their dashboard. If you sign up for a OpenDNS account you get full stats on all lookups performed in your networks, phishing protection, adult content filters, website shortcuts, domain blocking and customised search pages, for when you misstype that domain name. This sounds just like a lot of other products you can install on your machine, but with OpenDNS you get all of these features without installing anything. If you run a small network like me, you simply change the DNS servers on your router and you are away!
Oh and the award for ‘Most Viewed Domain’ on my network this month is BBC.co.uk
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