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Originally Posted by cashman
being a computer numpty, does open dns affect yer anti virus n spybot n things? mine was very slow earlier also.
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No it doesn't. Each website has an IP for example google.com is 72.14.205.100. What happens is when you type a web address, the DNS (domain name server) looks up what the IP of google.com is, so that your computer can find it.
Your own providers DNS are often quite slow (mine is), and sometimes have problems where you can't access certain sites although they're not actually down. Therefore I choose to use OpenDNS as I find it performs better. It should have no affect on applications etc.
I hope this is clear as mud.
