I've been talking again...
I'll start with the most important news: will Smart DNS Proxy remain free?
? Is it a lifetime giveaway or... Just limited?
Well.. They don't know
Honestly I don't know how long the Smart DNS Proxy will be free or the recent users are getting lifetime licence. We know that it's backed by Global Stealth and they are supporting it at the moment. But even it will turn to be paid service, I believe they would give a great beneficial discount to it's recent supporters .
I received their email with the question: do you like us?
I answered:
"I think browsing has become slower when finding new pages / loading pages. For the rest: hulu.com - still free. So I'm happy
"
Response:
"Hello Devnullius,
Actually as our global tests Smart DNS Proxy increases your browsing experience, but due to your ISP or location may have causing an issue specifically for your area.
Can you tell me your country of location?"
Answer: NL
Response: "That explains. Netherlands is one of the main locations for global dns services like google while our closest dns servers located in Ireland to you. Few milliseconds difference , but still I can understand that it may be noticeable sometimes.
In the future we will have DNS servers located in Netherlands. Once it's up I will get back to you and provide you details
."
My response:
"
just to be sure I checked with a little tool (
http://scforum.info/index.php/topic,7919.msg19788.html#msg19788 and
http://scforum.info/index.php/topic,7919.msg20729.html#msg20729) what the difference was. With you guys I saw pingtimes up to 185ms... OpenDNS went down to less than 10 at moments
I now switch back and forth... I'll appreciate the new servers!"
Response:
"Mert Guney replied
Hello Devnullius,
Yes, OpenDNS have servers located in Amsterdam, so you get very quick query responses But that difference of 1/10th of 1 second is actually hardly noticeable for regular users. So you should be IT focused person
.
Actually there is a major difference between services like OpenDNS and SmartDNSProxy. You know OpenDNS is actually open to everyone but SmartDNSProxy only accepts queries from certain IP addresses - Only SmartDNSProxy clients - which surely can create little delay.
Also services like OpenDNS and Google DNS, they do keep logs of user activities. Where as there is no log keeping on Smart DNS Proxy.
I hope our Network team will be deploying our Amsterdam servers shortly so you will be able to benefit from it
. I will let you know once that will be ready for public usage.
Honestly I don't know how long the Smart DNS Proxy will be free or the recent users are getting lifetime licence. We know that it's backed by Global Stealth and they are supporting it at the moment. But even it will turn to be paid service, I believe they would give a great beneficial discount to it's recent supporters
."
(end of discussion)
I'd like to repeat from the previous quote:
But that difference of 1/10th of 1 second is actually hardly noticeable for regular users. So you should be IT focused person
I'd like to respond to that...
A copy paste from my PM with Samker...
"
I think, after 4 months of harsh fighting with tech support, I finally got internet repair people at my home last month. Guess what: there was not a single problem in my setup. Sjee - hadn't I been telling that for a few months? Bandwith is not the problem nor the ONLY thing - stupid tech support.
This afternoon they found the culprit: a special cable was badly welded to a system board. All had to be replaced. Had been broken for years, nobody ever complained (coax cable ISP). And I started complaining from the very first day ;p"
The frustration I sustained in the last few months... Thumbnails not loading (refresh after refresh), pages loading waaay too long before time-outing (not caused by DNS settings... It made it worse, but not main problem), the ISP router itself was fucked (Ziggo BV, Ciscom); if I changed SSID routing tables would go wrong with strange erratic results... We don't support wifi. Replace cable. Try other computer. Try yet another computer. Replace with two more cables. Shut everything down except 1 pc. Direct link, remove your own wifi router (because strength was horrible; my android phone had a stronger signal when set as wifi hotspot).
Anyways, I'm babbling :>
Over & till we update again...
Devnullius
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Mert Guney
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