[Ham-Mac] Cool Free Utility called namebench

[John Merrill]

I ran the utility and only one was 1.1% faster. I'll probably not switch.

73, John N1JM

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:31 AM, David Kelly <dkelly at hiwaay.net> wrote:

>
> On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:01 AM, John Merrill wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Dick Kriss <aa5vu at arrl.net> wrote:
> >
> >> If you get bored and want speed up your internet connection, try the
> free
> >> benchmarking utility from Google called namebench.
> >>
> >> http://code.google.com/p/namebench/
> >>
> >> Download and run namebench to see if there are better DNS servers for
> your
> >> location.  You may be surprised with the namebench recommendation for
> your
> >> location.  It takes a few minutes and will run in the background while
> you
> >> are doing other stuff.
> >
> > I assume you may not run your Mac through a router? If so  you would have
> > to change the router to the new DNS.
>
> Why would you have to change anything at the router unless you have
> blocked outgoing DNS and only allow the router to serve DNS to internal
> systems?
>
> --
> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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