Thanks for those ideas, Scott. I’ve set up OpenDNS and I’m happy with my
connection’s performance. although contention rate is sometimes a problem at
peak times.
I have an IP camera on my property which I like to access when I’m away,
although I’m not sure if that is necessarily easier with the static IP.
Chris
> On 26 Sep 17, at 22:14, Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> *Chris said: "but it seemed to take longer to start any web connection"*
>
> In my experience this is almost always caused by lousy DNS service from
> your ISP. Some ISP DNS servers are literally orders of magnitude slower
> than the major public ones. Switch to OpenDNS (208.67.222.222 and
> 208.67.220.220) or Google's DNS (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) or any of a number of
> others. Some ISPs have also taken to "helping" by redirecting typos for
> their own purposes, or otherwise "inspecting" DNS traffic, which also slows
> response. There's no reason you have to retain a DNS address provided by
> your ISP, and if you choose to do so as a hedge against their blaming your
> DNS choice should you have other problems, then demote their DNS servers to
> third place or lower.
>
> As Jan mentions, using a static, public-facing IP is only worthwhile if
> you're running always-on services that will require it, and only if you
> also are sure you understand how to properly set it up. Using one without
> proper setup can actually make things worse for you. If you only need to
> reach your own machine for occasional personal purposes, it's easier and
> usually more effective to use DynDNS or a similar service that can do this
> with your dynamically assigned IP.
>
> ---Scott
>
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 11:23 AM ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
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