The near-total ban on outside communication has left Starlink as the only choice for many in the country to go online.

By switching to, for example, Google's public DNS servers you could experience less waiting for pages to start loading, and fewer outages or DNS errors. Simply because small ISPs might not have the capacity to provide the same level of DNS.

Because of its universality, DNS has become a natural enforcement layer for network policies, whether for security, compliance, productivity or digital well-being.

In early January, Iran proved a capability that many technologists had viewed as unlikely, the massive interference with Starlink, the satellite internet network that was meant to be immune to censorship and jamming.

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Cierra was an associate writer for CNET's broadband team, covering all things home internet. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a master's degree. Cierra is passionate about social justice issues, fiber-optic internet ...

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