Does censorship affect one's internet speed?

[Genesis]

I live in a country where there is censorship of the Internet, and quite a large number of Websites are filtered out. I'm just wondering, would that have an affect on my Internet speed? I've always felt that the 8mbps I'm subscribing to is much slower than its equivalent outside the country, at the same time was wondering whether I imagined it?

 

[Sander k]

Not sure about that, but 8mbps is very very slow. I got 20mbps at home and 80mbps at work.

 

[Genesis]

Wow! The Netherlands has to be excellent, as I've seen others from the Netherlands with equally impressive speeds. :good:

I've got 100mbps at work, but must say it doesn't feel much faster than 8mbps at home. Again, I'm wondering whether this is due to all kinds of filters and scripts in the background. :unknown:

 

[Hells Bells]

I'd imagine if there were filters in place that it would slow down things a bit. yeah

 

[ogah]

depending the method they use.
in my country have 2 method.
some provider use dns based on opendns family filter and reconfigure with local filter then they named nawala dns, this method not effect internet speed.
other provider use dns + content filtering, they replace/redirect javascript and flash url with their url, this method slow down internet speed and sometime make stuck when their host down.

but we can disable their censorship by 3rd party dns like google dns, scrubid dns, openic dns etc.

 

[Genesis]

That's interesting Ogah. Didn't know that was one way they could be doing it.

 

[ogah]

i am also not know
i am only know if your internet not filtered/censored we can do it with openDNS parental control on connection properties 208.67.222.123 (preferred DNS server) and 208.67.220.123 (alternate DNS server).

source: http://www.opendns.com/home-solutions/parental-controls

 

[Sander k]

I got 30mbps on my phone now, which is pretty awesome!

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And other then piratebay nothing is blocked.