TechCrunch has a good review on OpenDNS which led me to try it out, even though the article weighs more on not using the service. I’ve just configured my laptop to use it via it’s wireless connection, I plan to test it out and decide later if I should change our router.

The company has two primary selling points. The first is its phishing filter, a list of malicious sites aggregated by a number of different sources that are blocked when access is attempted through OpenDNS. The second is faster page loads due to the company’s strategically placed servers and large cache of domain names that can resolve DNS queries faster than other servers…