Speed up your Internet: Find a better DNS

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One of the ways you can speed up the Internet, other than just upgrading your subscription, is to use a better DNS. By default your ISP provides the DNS for you. While it's generally not so bad, it's not the best either. So how do we know which one is the best? We have to benchmark them.

Introducing DNS Benchmark.

Graphs makes it easy to see which one works best

The software is in fact very straightforward to use, all you need to do is go to the 'Nameservers' tab and click 'Run Benchmark'. It doesn't take very long to see which one is better, out of the many public DNS out there. In most cases, I find that Google Public DNS is often the fastest.

But after you run the benchmark, you can do a full DNS benchmark, looking for even more DNS to benchmark, including little known ones. It is said to improve your connections even further. By how much, well, that depends on the conditions.

Also, by using a different DNS, you can bypass some filters which your ISP has blocked for some reason. Which is good, I think.

You can get this software for free at this website:

http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm

OK, so I've benchmarked it. What else should I do?

You have to change your DNS settings according to your benchmark results. This site should assist you, just remember to substitute the DNS with your benchmark result:

https://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html