DL/page load speed great, but browser "looking up" and "connecting to" slow
benz981
Enthusiast - Level 2

I just got Fios Internet on Monday.  The speed of downloading and webpage loading is really good!  However, there is one annoying problem that maybe someone can help with?  When I enter a URL, it takes a long time for the browser to "look up" and "connect to" the site.  For example, it takes 10 seconds to "look up" google.com (which should load almost instantly).  The problem is that many sites that pull from different advertisers... getting on a news site is awful because it takes forever for the internet to look up "ads.cnn.com" and "advertisements.ystd.dhsk.com" or whatever.  But once if finally looks them up and connects to them, the ads load quickly.

Any ideas about what I can try?

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pamcphilly
Enthusiast - Level 3

You might be running into some issues with how OS X does DNS especially with some routers.  You can check out these posts for the fixes.  Basically you would change the dns on the computer side and not the router side.  You said you tried OpenDNS but didn't say if you changed it on the router or on the Mac.  It looks like the changes have to happen on the Mac.

http://rubyisbeautiful.com/2008/2/8/osx-dns-fix-update

http://aplawrence.com/MacOSX/firefox_google.html 

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abisdabis1
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Thanks.  I will try this tonight when I get home form work.
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