I was one of the first testers of sprint broadband in the north phoenix
area (back in.... what was it... 1999?) and I found that their DNS servers
were slow as hell. I did the same as you, and the first lookup was always
slow - but after that it was fast. :-) I also installed squid for some
web caching and was loving life. I eventually switched from Sprint to
Qwest VDSL (ChoiceTV) because my signal quality sucked and I was tired of
power-cycling my cable modem every day. YMMV
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002,
Roderick Ford wrote:
> I've had Sprint Broadband for a couple of years and had slow times in my
> service during the day, no big deal. But, lo and behold, when I finally
> hooked up a caching DNS box inside my LAN, suddenly my service is
> EXCEPTIONALLY FASTER. It is so nice to not have to rely on their DNS
> servers except on new addresses. If anyone hasn't done this yet, I highly
> recommend it. It was amazing to see the difference.
>
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