Advice Request NextDNS thoughts and experiences?

[Kongo]

I agree, but sometimes it's just it too much fun. He just reacts like his avatar.

Fair enough...

 

[Templarware]

But more seriously, if I can prove that 300 000 isn't enough for me, it won't be enough for basically everyone. Considering that I'm the one making most of the browsing in the house.

 

[Kongo]

But more seriously, if I can prove that 300 000 isn't enough for me, it won't be enough for basically everyone. Considering that I'm the one making most of the browsing in the house.

Same for me, thats why I paid the 20$ to support the small team. Out of all the DNS services NextDNS provides the most customizability and is definitely worth it. (my personal opinion)

 

[Templarware]

Same for me, thats why I paid the 20$ to support the small team. Out of all the DNS services NextDNS provides the most customizability and is definitely worth it. (my personal opinion)

What I'm going to do is leave NextDNS at the router, for all the devices that are less configurable, but setting CloudFlare families on PC for more speed and compatibility. And this way the 300k queries must be more than enough.

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

DoH3 which is DNS over HTTPS/3, HTTP/3 being HTTP over Quic can now be used in mainstream browsers!
(DoH3 uses UDP/443)

add https://doh3.dns.nextdns.io/YOUR-ID in your browser.
Done.

see What is DNS over TLS (DoT), DNS over Quic (DoQ) and DNS over HTTPS (DoH & DoH3)?

 

[Templarware]

Do you think the speed between NextDNS and Cloudflare is worth considering?
Quad9 seems to be really slow, but the blue bar is shorter than the red one. I don't know how that translates into real world performance.

 

[Digmor Crusher]

Its probably just a few milliseconds, something you wouldn't even notice.

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

Its probably just a few milliseconds, something you wouldn't even notice.

True but DNS is always about milliseconds.
And if it works, why not use that extra speed?

 

[The_King]

True but DNS is always about milliseconds.
And if it works, why not use that extra speed?

I am surprised you said this considering how much I have seen you praise NextDNS on here.

I personally use Cloud-flare because NextDNS is not even in the Top 10 resolvers in my area.

NextDNS is certainly much more configurable than cloud-flare when I test it out. If they improve their performance
at my location I would probably switch to NextDNS.

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

I am surprised you said this considering how much I have seen you praise NextDNS on here.

I personally use Cloud-flare because NextDNS is not even in the Top 10 resolvers in my area.

NextDNS is certainly much more configurable than cloud-flare when I test it out. If they improve their performance
at my location I would probably switch to NextDNS.

If you scroll down to the world map on NextDNS you can see a ping from your side to their side.


Anway you can contact them at their support forum and they will help with improving your connection

 

[The_King]

If you scroll down to the world map on NextDNS you can see a ping from your side to their side.
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Anway you can contact them at their support forum and they will help with improving your connection

Very unstable was up over 400ms went down to 97ms then back up to 253ms

Cloudflare avg is 36ms.

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

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Very unstable was up over 400ms went down to 97ms then back up to 253ms

Cloudflare avg is 36ms.

This sounds like a network problem not on your side.
Contact NextDNS team on my posted link and i'm sure they will help you

You don't even need a NextDNS account. Forum account is enough

 

[Templarware]

If we use NextDNS android app, without a custom configuration, what exactly is it doing? On playstore it claims to encrypt your traffic, so is it basically like Warp?

 

[Jan Willy]

If we use NextDNS android app, without a custom configuration, what exactly is it doing? On playstore it claims to encrypt your traffic, so is it basically like Warp?

You can easily check it in your NextDNS log. Tick on an entry and when you see the lock symbol, it's o.k.

 

[brambedkar59]

If we use NextDNS android app, without a custom configuration, what exactly is it doing? On playstore it claims to encrypt your traffic, so is it basically like Warp?

No, it's different from WARP. It only encrypts the DNS queries not entire traffic like WARP.

 

[Jan Willy]

There is a separate thread for WARP: Cloudflare announces Warp VPN service

 

[Back3]

I have NextDNS on my iPhone and my iPad. Very good tool for privacy and security. Only OISD filter. On my PC, I still go with uBlock Origin: with NextDNS, I cannot utilize my pop3 email delivery system that depends on my internet provider. I use it for friends and family. I use Gmail for public stuff.

 

[Templarware]

There are no logs if not using custom config.

 

[Templarware]

No, it's different from WARP. It only encrypts the DNS queries not entire traffic like WARP.

So, for public Wifi, Warp is more appropriate?

 

[Jan Willy]

There are no logs if not using custom config.

You should log in on the NextDNS site.