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General Maximus · 05-09-2015, 17:22

Tbh both of them have an extremely high level of availability. I know there are a couple of users on this forum who swear by opendns but I can remember seeing at least 2 issues with opendns over the last couple of years whereas I have never had any probs/down time with google's dns servers. I personally use google's as primary and secondary and then opendns as 3rd if all else fails. You'll only ever default to your secondary if the primary can't be reached and same for the tertiary. I know some people like to use a mix of both and have google first, opendns second and then the second google (8.8.4.4) third. I honestly don't think it will make any difference at all and if google do ever do anything to screw their dns register up which we don't like it then it is a two second job to go into your router config, remove the ip addresses and replace them with opendns.

1) Changing your dns settings is the first thing I would do when setting up my router (make sure your shub is in modem mode) and you will not believe how much aggravation it will save you in the future. You casually come on the forum in a couple of months and see a torrent of posts about people not being able to get on the internet or certain websites and you'll be wondering what they are going on about because everything is fine for you. You'll then realise VM's dns servers have gone down and sit there with a smirk on your face because you aren't using them.

2) The next thing is to change passwords. The router will have a default password which you will use to log in to the gui and you will want to change that so that in the event anyone in your house tries to log in, they can't. Same goes for if you have a wireless breach. You then want to change the wireless settings and set a wireless password and use whatever the strongest method of encryption is available like AES256. You also want to set the wireless ssid which is the name for your network and the frequencies of the channels etc.

3) Optional settings would be configuring the addressing scheme you want to use on your network. The default will probably be 192.168.1.100/24 but you can change it to whatever you want like 18.19.1.100/26. There will no doubt be options for qos settings and port forwarding etc. I would spend some time and have a good look at all the settings and options and see what works for you. If in doubt, give it ago and see what different it makes and if you don't like it you can always go back and turn it off.

05-09-2015, 17:22	#12
General Maximus cf.mega poster Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lincoln Services: phone + 1gbit BB + SkyQ Posts: 11,021	Re: I this Router any good to use with superhub??? Tbh both of them have an extremely high level of availability. I know there are a couple of users on this forum who swear by opendns but I can remember seeing at least 2 issues with opendns over the last couple of years whereas I have never had any probs/down time with google's dns servers. I personally use google's as primary and secondary and then opendns as 3rd if all else fails. You'll only ever default to your secondary if the primary can't be reached and same for the tertiary. I know some people like to use a mix of both and have google first, opendns second and then the second google (8.8.4.4) third. I honestly don't think it will make any difference at all and if google do ever do anything to screw their dns register up which we don't like it then it is a two second job to go into your router config, remove the ip addresses and replace them with opendns. 1) Changing your dns settings is the first thing I would do when setting up my router (make sure your shub is in modem mode) and you will not believe how much aggravation it will save you in the future. You casually come on the forum in a couple of months and see a torrent of posts about people not being able to get on the internet or certain websites and you'll be wondering what they are going on about because everything is fine for you. You'll then realise VM's dns servers have gone down and sit there with a smirk on your face because you aren't using them. 2) The next thing is to change passwords. The router will have a default password which you will use to log in to the gui and you will want to change that so that in the event anyone in your house tries to log in, they can't. Same goes for if you have a wireless breach. You then want to change the wireless settings and set a wireless password and use whatever the strongest method of encryption is available like AES256. You also want to set the wireless ssid which is the name for your network and the frequencies of the channels etc. 3) Optional settings would be configuring the addressing scheme you want to use on your network. The default will probably be 192.168.1.100/24 but you can change it to whatever you want like 18.19.1.100/26. There will no doubt be options for qos settings and port forwarding etc. I would spend some time and have a good look at all the settings and options and see what works for you. If in doubt, give it ago and see what different it makes and if you don't like it you can always go back and turn it off.