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Kushan · 23-01-2013, 18:15

There's no harm in using Virgin's DNS as the primary with Google or OpenDNS as the secondary. That way, you'll get the best of both.

Virgin's DNS servers are 194.168.4.100 and 194.168.8.100.

By all rights, Virgin's SHOULD be the fastest, after all their hosted on Virgin's own network whereas the others will at best be at a datacentre somewhere near you but still outside of Virgin's network. However, Virgin's DNS has gone down more than once in the last few years (I believe there was a DNS outage about 6 or 8 months ago) so it's definitely worth using an alternative as a backup.

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Kushan cf.mega poster Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Warrington Posts: 4,737	Re: Anyone have a slow down in browsing There's no harm in using Virgin's DNS as the primary with Google or OpenDNS as the secondary. That way, you'll get the best of both. Virgin's DNS servers are 194.168.4.100 and 194.168.8.100. By all rights, Virgin's SHOULD be the fastest, after all their hosted on Virgin's own network whereas the others will at best be at a datacentre somewhere near you but still outside of Virgin's network. However, Virgin's DNS has gone down more than once in the last few years (I believe there was a DNS outage about 6 or 8 months ago) so it's definitely worth using an alternative as a backup.