Making a Living Online

I use DSLExtreme as my internet service provider and i’m moderately happy with my service. I probably should up the speed though. Today i had a lot of trouble with my internet service and it quickly became very frustrating to figure out.

If you are someone who has ever had networking problems then you probably know just how i feel. I probably tried ever trick, setting and troubleshooting procedure to find out just why the heck my connection was dropping out so much and eventually not working at all.

Eventually i figured out the issue, my ISPs desired DNS servers were either down or experiencing difficulties.. DNS or Domain Name System is basically a database that lists all domains, like yahoo.com or youtube.com and translates them to the appropriate IP Address. This happens because domain names are easier for humans to remember than a bunch of numbers.

Anyway, I switched from the DNS databases my ISP uses to the ones OpenDNS has. It’s free, and it has the added security of filtering out all the junk. Check it out :)