Not convinced my Buffalo router isn't slowing me down

[deckeda]

I need a good way to test this, and download speed test sites don't seem to tell the whole story. My download speed rates are the same as they've always been.

The behavior is that when I go to a site there's usually 10 seconds or so before anything happens. The browser shows "contacting (name of site) ..." during that time. At about the 11-13-second mark the site renders, or begins to render.

Contrast this without the router and using OS X's PPPoE, there's essentially no delay. About 2 seconds and sites begin to appear.

[Baby Tats]

Sounds like a DNS issue.

Set your router to use the open DNS servers and see if it helps.

http://www.opendns.com/

[deckeda]

Yeah, I know. I'm trying the open DNS servers right now but I don't see an improvement necessarily.

I had the DNS fields blank previously, because I read (or maybe misread) in the Buffalo Help NOT to use them, which I thought was odd.

When I originally set up the router I inputted my ISP's DNS server addresses and noticed the difference (between the router and not using the router) almost immediately, then went looking for an answer and removed the DNS numbers according to Buffalo.

It seemed to help for a short while, and then back here to square one. If I can't get improvement over the Mac's built-in PPPoE I'll have to get rid of it and try another one.

[Baby Tats]

Flush your dns cache and see what happens.

From the terminal type in:

lookupd -flushcache


BT