Useful tip

[entwisi]

For info, you can improve your PCs internet DNS lookup over the service supplied by your ISP by using the following.

http://www.opendns.com/

The beauty is that a few large ISPs are looking to hijack the DNS service to redirect you to marketing sites when you misspell a website.

No cost, nowt to download, just a couple of simple changes that take minutes to do.

Highly recommended IMHO

 

[accymel]

Doesn't let u configure for wireless connection in properties after check tick tcp/IP, i only get an RPC service tab

 

[entwisi]

Mel, can you exapnd, sorry if I'm half asleep but you didn't quite make sense then(at least to me)

Or did you miss the bit about making the change on your router?

 

[accymel]

On this link > http://www.opendns.com/start/windows_xp.php

following instructions & on no 5, mine doesnt come up with whats shown in no 6, like i say i get RPC service tab only, does that explain it better with pictures hehehehehe

 

[entwisi]

are you sure you have selected TCP-IP in the list before clicking "Properties"?

Its sometimes off the bottom and you have to scroll down to it

 

[accymel]

Yeh off the bottom - done sorted

 

[entwisi]

user error then eh?

 

[accymel]

Hehehee even users break down LOL

Soo this speeds up look ups, any other noticeable improvements??

 

[WillowTheWhisp]

Memo to self - come back and look at this when I'm not doing half a dozen other things.

 

[entwisi]

Hehehee even users break down LOL

Soo this speeds up look ups, any other noticeable improvements??

http://www.opendns.com/faq/

I guess for most people intercepting phishing attacks and correcting spelling mistakes added to improvemnts in speed are the biggies