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Two requests: Add an option to toggle whether the router advertises its own IP address as a DNS server. Advanced users don't need routerlogin.net. Allow a private IP address to be specified as a ...
Not to beat a dead horse here... (and security aside) but many web pages result in dozens and sometimes hundreds of DNS queries, mostly due to all the advertising present. Any latency resolving all those DNS lookups just compounds the user experiencing "slowness" in a page load. I've tested DNS performance and the router is ADDING latency, not improving it. Wasn't one of the primary reasons for including a DNS resolver/cache inside the router in the first place to SPEED UP DNS lookups by caching them locally? If it's not REDUCING the DNS latency then it's only slowing things down.