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#242943 21-Nov-2018 06:44

I saw an advertisement that says if you use such and such a (paid) DNS you will have less lag when gaming in the USA. I'm with Spark. Will using a different DNS give me less lag to USA? Currently 170ms from Dunedin to Oregon and 220ms to Virginia.

Just wondering. (On wired connection to UFB)

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#2130741 21-Nov-2018 07:10

No. DNS translates domain names to IP addresses, and the result is cached for between 5 minutes and 24 hours. The DNS lookup takes usually about 20 - 50ms every 5mins to 24h, so you might get a 50ms lag that often. But once you have the IP DNS plays no role in connectivity, latency or routing.

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