[olug] Cox Speed Increase

Wed Jul 9 15:01:18 CDT 2014

DNS latency seems to be a bottleneck when surfing the web with a fast
internet connection. 

I have a short attention span and it is really annoying for me to have to
wait a half a second for all the parts of a webpage to load.
......that and slow talkers. 

If you want to feel the effects manually pick a far away and terrible DNS
server, clear your DNS cache, and surf.  Try some news sites that are full
of ad garbage. 

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Jason N
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 2:30 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Cox Speed Increase

I think for downloading, DNS won't make a bit of difference, unless I'm
completely missing somthing.

The only difference DNS makes is how fast your browser learns the IP address
of the website you want to visit.  Once it knows that the download process
itself should be affected what so ever.

---- Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com> wrote: 
Nice, thanks, I recommending someone try SpinRight on a hard drive
yesterday.

I did the benchmark and then the make custom list and then did another
benchmark.
What I am/was doing still seems to be then best.

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Jason N
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 12:58 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Cox Speed Increase

Here's another utility that will help you find possible faster DNS servers
to use.

https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm

---- Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com> wrote: 
I was temporarily using Googles public DNS when I noticed the hijack.  It
didn't notice the Cox redirected search page when the wrong url is entered
thing....or whatever you call it, I would call it a custom 404 but that
isn't really what it is because it isn't a webserver response. 
.......but my queries ended up going to 92.242.140.2.

What I believe may have happened is Snort blocked 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and it
switched to Cox's DNS somehow.  I originally thought they were doing
protocol or port based DNS hijacking, I don't think they are, if they were
the opt out seems to have corrected it.

Thanks for the tool T.J.!
Here is the graph of my benchmark.  
I am using the Cox DHCP provided servers with pfSense's  dnsmasq DNS
forwarder.  It seems to be the fastest.
68.105.28.13
68.105.29.13
68.105.28.14
68.105.29.14
http://omahax.com/img/dnsbench.png

I used OpenDNS for a bit years ago but switched because it was noticeably
slower.  
As far a privacy goes, it might be best just to use Cox's DNS since they
already know where you are going, unless you are using TOR or something.

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Chad
Homan
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 10:30 AM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Cox Speed Increase

+1 on OpenDNS. +1 on 50m
On Jul 8, 2014 11:18 PM, "Justin Reiners" <justin at hotlinesinc.com> wrote:

> I assumed it were hijacking any dns lookups for residential period, 
> seems like something they would do. Although I had to deal with both 
> ATT and Time Warner today at the sales office, 2 different ISP's both 
> down due to a fiber cut. Ahh excitement, Makes me love Cox.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Justin Reiners 
> <justin at hotlinesinc.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Ahh that explains it. I use my own DNS server.
> > On Jul 8, 2014 8:39 PM, "T. J. Brumfield" <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I've been using OpenDNS rather that Cox's DNS for years so I've 
> >> never
> seen
> >> their DNS hijacking.
> >>
> >> Google also has a Namebench tool to help you find the DNS server 
> >> that
> will
> >> give you the best performance.
> >>
> >> http://www.beststuff.com/gadgets/google/29622/
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> http://www.omaha.com/money/increase-in-cox-residential-internet-speeds
> -comin
> >> > g-this-week/article_d62501ac-05f2-11e4-ba25-0017a43b2370.html
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > So Cox residential is getting a speed increase this week, I hope 
> >> > the Ultimate tier gets a boost.  Any luck getting Century Link 
> >> > gigabit to
> >> work
> >> > well?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Last week I opted out of the "advance error page" DNS hijacking 
> >> > (I
> >> thought
> >> > I
> >> > had already done this in the past)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> http://www.cox.com/residential/support/internet/article.cox?articleId=
> bd71bb
> >> > c0-6446-11df-ccef-000000000000
> >> >
> >> > My Cox Ultimate internet now seems laggier than normal.  By doing 
> >> > this
> >> did
> >> > I
> >> > get added to some goofy traffic filter group that is really laggy?
> >> >
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