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This one might sound scarily geeky, but if you can overcome the fear factor, you can probably improve your internet experience. Why wouldn't you want to read more?
Eddie Arthur provoked me to this post when he described another frustration of travelling in countries where the internet is less developed. What Eddie is describing is a DNS problem. DNS is what converts human readable internet addresses into the IP addresses which computers on the internet use to talk to each other. So for example shaddick.net is converted to 67.15.157.12.
I won't go deeper into how DNS works - mainly because I don't really know, but if you aren't averse to a little technical adventure and your machine isn't in an office and already configured by an IT department, you might take a look at OpenDNS . They will explain how to configure your machine to use their DNS servers rather than the ones automatically configured for you by default (DHCP). If you do follow the OpenDNS instructions, please take care that you note your current settings first so that you can put them back if you find that your internet connection seems to be broken.
My experience of OpenDNS over the last month or two has been great, but I'll be interested in your comments if you try it.
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