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I just stumbled upon this while reading a euro Apple MacBook Pro magazine.
Most users probably will not notice much of a change. The one's who do will be those that have internet slowdowns from ISP filtering, and data logging.
This is something that can help eliminate tracking, gain access to websites faster, and put you in control of what you can access directly from the server(if you setup your router with it).
Note: this can be done individually to each computer, or you can chose to do it to your router to cover your whole network.
This can also be done on other operating systems, not just OSX.
Here's a pic of it in the magazine:
Pretty self explanatory from the directions.
OpenDNS can also be setup from the router to increase speeds throughout your whole network, as well as control the information that each computer can access.
Setting up your router requires creating an account on their site(free).
If you do it with your router, it is best to empty all cache(internet, as well as DNS cache).
I have setup my whole network at home today, and I actually noticed a slight, yet noticeable difference with pages that usually had lots of images(forums), and I have pretty good(imo) internet(22ping, 23mbp/s down, 6.5mbp/s up)!
If anything bad happens, or you don't like your experience, you can deactivate your online account, delete the server you listed(208.67.22x.22x), and everything will go back to the way things were.
Though all the changing required to access OpenDNS are easily reversible, if you are not comfortable doing this, or don't understand what OpenDNS does, or how it functions, don't do it.
Most users probably will not notice much of a change. The one's who do will be those that have internet slowdowns from ISP filtering, and data logging.
This is something that can help eliminate tracking, gain access to websites faster, and put you in control of what you can access directly from the server(if you setup your router with it).
Note: this can be done individually to each computer, or you can chose to do it to your router to cover your whole network.
This can also be done on other operating systems, not just OSX.
Here's a pic of it in the magazine:
Pretty self explanatory from the directions.
OpenDNS can also be setup from the router to increase speeds throughout your whole network, as well as control the information that each computer can access.
Setting up your router requires creating an account on their site(free).
If you do it with your router, it is best to empty all cache(internet, as well as DNS cache).
I have setup my whole network at home today, and I actually noticed a slight, yet noticeable difference with pages that usually had lots of images(forums), and I have pretty good(imo) internet(22ping, 23mbp/s down, 6.5mbp/s up)!
If anything bad happens, or you don't like your experience, you can deactivate your online account, delete the server you listed(208.67.22x.22x), and everything will go back to the way things were.
Though all the changing required to access OpenDNS are easily reversible, if you are not comfortable doing this, or don't understand what OpenDNS does, or how it functions, don't do it.
