Internet & Tech: Speed up your internet

Zoom zoom - OpenDNS

Seems to work like a dream! All you do is pop the OpenDNS IP's in your static DNS settings and you'll notice the difference immediately, at least I did.

Posted By: Travis

It does seem quite a bit faster. I'm impressed.

Thanks for the linkage E.

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Yep. There's hardly any lag time when connecting to sites now. Flippin' sweet!

Gotta try this when I get home...

Posted By: Travis

It seems they take over your error page if a website cannot be found. But it doesn't have any ads, just a clean search engine with suggestions.

Still quite speedy so far.

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I don't think I have noticed any download speed differences when sucking down large files, but when loading websites, especially ones with a lot of 3rd party ads running - it loads them really fast because there's no lag in IP resolve time.

The spell check feature is awesome.

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192.168.x.x is internal - hard to say whats going on there. Putting the OpenDNS servers in your static DNS boxes in TCP/IP properties doesn't mess with the internet connectivity itself really, just tells it to get the name resolution for domain names from somewhere other than your default ISP.

Try inputting them, resetting the router and restarting the computer - other than that, I don't know. It's pretty universal and should work for everyone.