UnoTelly UnoDNS

A sleeker design.

Like the other smart DNS providers here, UnoTelly has expanded its options to include VPN services, and indeed those services are now the primary thing it sells on its web site. Its original smart DNS service (called UnoDNS) is still available, however, and it’s another service that has been hit with the Netflix proxy ban. As with Unblock-Us and Unlocator, this will be a deal breaker for a lot of users. However, it still supports other services just fine. We found it could be a little slow starting at times, but was usually capable of highdefinition streams from international services.

And a lot of international services are supported. Over 300 different video and music streaming services are covered by UnoTelly, though it’s not possible to individually select the country from which you’ll use each one. Instead there is a single “global” location selector, which will determine your location for those services where there might be options.

It has DNS servers spread around the world, and visiting www2.unotelly. com/global-servers will very conveniently point you to the nearest one for your configuration. And the DNS servers were fast too — a Sydney server we used responded to pings in 68ms, which was significantly faster than even Google.

Other features include a DDNS IP registration tool as well as a solid help and FAQ system for setting it all up. There are some strange configuration elements – like selecting Approved Websites merely brings you to a page that says “We’ve been forced to change,” whatever that means.

Of the four smart DNS services we’ve looked at here, we’d put it at a distant second behind Getflix, given that the latter has defeated the Netflix block.