#Norton connectsafe vs opendns free#

Quad9 did not perform well across a few cities (specially Sao Paulo and Tokyo) and had an average response time of 26msec, higher than Google (9msec).Google got in #1 place when comparing the averages (9.5msec).

It was under 2msec in 8 different locations, which is amazing.

Quad9 got the fastest response out of the most locations we tested.

We removed the worst response and averaged the others (to reduce the chance of a latency from our test location affect the results). For each domain we tested it a 5 times, with a few minutes within each one. The DNS lookup test was done using the dig utility and extracting the 'Query time' from the results. CleanBrowsing and Norton are pretty consistent and with good performance across all locations. OpenDNS is still pretty good across the US, but not as fast in Asia and South America. Quad9 is pretty strong and faster than Google in multiple locations. TLDR: Google was the most stable and with the best average performance across all locations. Second, we actually measure the cached DNS lookup for a couple domains:, and and compared all the players. Ping's help us measure latency and distance between our testing servers and their DNS servers. I divided the test into 2 phases to see how it would fare against each other.

Europe: London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt.

North America: New York, Toronto, Montreal, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco.Unfiltered DNS + Optional Blocking of malicious domains:ДЇiltered / Safe DNSвЂЉ-вЂЉBlocking Adult content for families / children:ДЄs far as locations, we tested from these 14 locations from around the globe: In this article, we will compare the raw performance of a few popular providers from multiple locations throughout the world and see how they fare against each other. However, DNS performance is critical for your own Internet experience, so before you choose a provider, we recommend testing it to see how fast it will load from your location. That's all awesome as now we have a variety of options to choose from. In addition to that, some players also block malicious domains and offer an option to block certain domain categories (mostly adult content) for families and kids. They give you an un-modified DNS experience that you may not get from your ISP.

#Norton connectsafe vs opendns free#

Since my ISP thought was a good idea to modify their resolver responses to push me to their own 'search engine', I realized the importance of the free DNS projects that Google, OpenDNS and others are offering.