The Verizon cr1000a router we got had pretty decent performance & wifi. I was generally surprised.
But man, it has a local DNS server & the response time is pitiful. It is wild how much faster the internet felt when I went around and manually configured systems to use a public or my own local resolver. I'm agog that Verizon would savage their Internet experience so brazenly with such critically deficient tech. DNS is this router's one bad apple.that spoils that basket.
There's also no way to configure anything else in the router. You can pick a resolver in the web gui, but it's only picking what the internal DNS server asks; DHCP always is the slow internal server.
There's other good reasons I wanted to get on openwrt again (i broadly don't trust the information security of this router) but this was an interesting & very surprising lesson.
My ISP default router (it's free from them, in their defense) has zero capability of changing the dns servers. That alone was a good reason to drop 250 euros on a WRT3200ACM and get OpenWRT running on it.
But man, it has a local DNS server & the response time is pitiful. It is wild how much faster the internet felt when I went around and manually configured systems to use a public or my own local resolver. I'm agog that Verizon would savage their Internet experience so brazenly with such critically deficient tech. DNS is this router's one bad apple.that spoils that basket.
There's also no way to configure anything else in the router. You can pick a resolver in the web gui, but it's only picking what the internal DNS server asks; DHCP always is the slow internal server.
There's other good reasons I wanted to get on openwrt again (i broadly don't trust the information security of this router) but this was an interesting & very surprising lesson.