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["Alex Maurin (Coyo)" <coyo AT darkdna.net>]

On 12/16/2012 11:42 AM, Brian Koontz wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 01:30:57AM -0600, Quinn Wood wrote:
> > On 12/15/2012 11:23 PM, Brian Koontz wrote:
> > > Under "Total DNS Neutrality," you should delete "or the speed in
> > > which they load" because in all truthfulness, DNS doesn't determine or
> > > affect this.
> > Actually it does affect page load times, if you have to wait for an
> > overburdened ISP DNS server to reply, you have to wait to access the
> > page.
> Not really.  The ratio between DNS resolution and page loading times
> is rather small, and it's misleading to imply that alternative DNS
> will speed up your surfing experience.
>
>    --Brian
Um, speaking from my experience with Verizon's infuriatingly slow 
resolving nameservers, yes, this affects the end-user's experience of 
page loads drastically, if the default dns nameserver assigned by dhcp 
is extremely slow to the point of timing out occassionally.

Although I primarily switched to OpenNIC originally for reasons of 
privacy, a close second was because the default resolver was 
excruciatingly slow.