- Apr 18, 2011
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Tough, you're forced to use one. :biggrin:computerfan21 said:What if i don't want a DNS?
jamescv7 said:Well if you don't use DNS its ok (still your an advance user) as long you experience a slowdown connection with a DNS.
I think slowdown should be slower, that was where the confusion was.jamescv7 said:I mean to say is that if you don't want to use DNS is that you can receive a FP or probably a slowdown connection to that DNS than to the ISP.
elliotcroft said:But yes, you can experience a much slower connection if you use a DNS, especially if you have a high speed internet connection to begin with.
When you change your DNS the content might not be served to you from the closest location. In fact this happened to me on several ocasions. On JustinTV for example, while using the Norton DNS, content was served from Germany, usually it is served from a server inside my country (and the steaming is faster). I noticed this change while using Flagfox addon for Firefox (that conveniently shows a flag representing the server location in the address bar - plus other features)You know about Content Delivery Networks like Amazon, Akamai, etc. that have data centers located across the globe and they serve content from the one that’s closest to you geographically.