Yes­ter­day I upgraded my router (Linksys WRT54GS) soft­ware to Hyper­WRT Thi­bor 15c because the last upgrade was made in Q1 2006. Addi­tion­ally, I changed from my ISP’s DNS servers to the OpenDNS ser­vice which proved to be a wise deci­sion. Accord­ing to the web­site, OpenDNS is safer, faster, and smarter. The inte­grated phish­ing pro­tec­tion and the spell check­ing func­tion seem to work quite nicely as pre­lim­i­nary tests indi­cate. Even so, I can live with­out these func­tions so they’re to be con­sid­ered a nice-to-have. What’s impor­tant though, is the fact that my inter­net con­nec­tion really became faster as far as the resolv­ing of domain names is concerned.

But that’s still not the best thing. No, the good news is that this ser­vice is free! If you’re a heavy user – brows­ing mul­ti­ple sites in dif­fer­ent tabs – you should give it a try. I’m sure it’s worth the few min­utes you need to spare in order to change the IP addresses of your des­ig­nated DNS servers.