OpenDNS Rocks!

I was tipped off at church to this amazing little website.   OpenDNS is a portal that connects you to servers that basically transform that www address you type into the actual binary web address of the computer you are trying to reach.  You internet provider does this for you when you connect to them, but many do it poorly.   I had no idea how poorly my web provider did this.  I was confused at how slow my internet functioned.  I would always see transfer rates that went in line with the service I paid for but everything took forever to resolve and come up.  Turns out changing my DNS server fixed a lot of that.  My meager 512K connection screams away and brings web pages in focus so much faster.  Its like re discovering broadband Internet.

If the terms DNS server confused you wikipedia has a great article that can explain it much better than I.  I linked it here