Are Any of You Experiencing a Poky Internet?
By: Mr. Wilson on
February 27, 2009
Thanks to Karin for alerting me to a problem some Time Warner Cable internet subscribers may be experiencing. Apparently TWC has been getting slammed by a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on their DNS servers, resulting in slow performance across the network. Phrased another way, a bunch of dorks are hogging TWC's internet address books so that your computer has to wait in line for ages while trying to look up the info needed to find google.com.
Since it appears to be a DNS attack, you may find relief by switching to OpenDNS. It may sound like voodoo to you, but there is a handy step-by-step guide you can follow.
I'm curious how many of you have experienced the slowdown. Have you tried switching to OpenDNS, and if so, did that help?