Should i use google dns servers?

heard it speeds up the internet with faster dns lookups & its very reliable.. should i use it instead of BT's?

There is also the similar DNSBench as well as namebench mentioned above.  http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
I think pretty similar, though namebench is hanging for me at the moment and DNSBench is working.
OpenDSN servers sometimes divert quite a lot of calls to go via OpenDNS servers.  This is partly to add filtering features to the result.  It means that even though their DNS servers are fast (far from fastest for me), common web access (including Google search) is sometimes a little slower than it should be.  This can be got around by explicity configuring of your OpenDSN services at the OpenDNS site.
I think it possible that Google's servers do data mining on your DNS requests.  I'm not sure if this is the case, and you may not mind anyway.
It is worth setting up DNS servers using different people for primary and secondary (and tertiary), as this increases resilience in the unikely case of a major failure of OpenDNS or Google DNS or whoever.
My current choice is   194.73.82.242, 212.118.241.1, 217.72.163.3  (BT Telehouse, InternapUK, HotChilli).  They were best according to DNSBench at some point, and have never been significantly worse than best to be worth changing.
To me, inability to set DNS servers at the router is the weakest point of the the HomeHub.

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