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My daughter complained that her PLDT myDSL was slow. Her yahoo mail, and even Google weren’t loading. Yet we were chatting via Google Talk. I told her to do a bandwidth test and to give me the result. It was 565kbps. I said that’s not slow. I told her that it was due to the poor DNS architecture of our ISPs in the Philippines. Even my customers in Pinoy Webhosting experience this. In fact, they raise hell thinking it’s our server that is down and that I’m just making excuses.

Abe Olandres mentions that “Almost all local ISPs have this problem — poor DNS architecture, network congestion, or inadequate peering arrangements — PLDT (esp. Smart Wifi), Eastern Telecoms, Globe Quest (Innove), and GreenDot.” and suggested the use of of Open Dns which “two things make OpenDNS faster than similar services. First, OpenDNS runs a really big, smart cache, so every OpenDNS user benefits from the activities of the broader OpenDNS user base. Second, OpenDNS runs a high-performance network which is geographically distributed (see network map) and serviced by several redundant connections. OpenDNS responds to your query from the nearest location. That means we’re very fast (and extremely reliable, to boot).” Get started here

And pray tell me, why can’t our ISP have multiple peer connections or help each other with redundancy connection. Tsk are they so competitive with each other?

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