Slow searching? Faster internet?

[yahoo2u2]

OK, dont know if this will be useful to anyone, but here it is anyway.

Many ISPs provide poor access via the servers they use, but thats not the end of the story.


Third-party DNS servers can be faster than your ISP’s DNS servers. This isn’t guaranteed — it will depend on your geographic location, how close the third-party DNS servers are to you, and how slow your ISP’s DNS servers are.



If all you care about is speed, you may see an advantage from switching to a third-party DNS server — or you may not. To be sure, you should run a DNS benchmarking tool like Namebench, which will make DNS requests to your current DNS server and other DNS servers, testing how long each server takes to respond.



If you want to use google DNS, simply go to your router setup and in the DNS enter

Primary     DNS 8 8 8 8

Secondary DNS 8 8 4 4

Here is mine with Talktalk

Access type:

VDSL

IPv4 status:

Connected

WAN IP Address:

XX.31.XXX.21

Primary DNS Server:

8.8.8.8

Secondary DNS Server:

8.8.4.4

IPv4 default gateway:

XX.31.XXX.1



xx I have removed

More info here for those interested
www.howtogeek.com/167239/7-reasons-to-use-a-third-party-dns-service/

OpenDNS (free or 80p a month)
Allows you to control what the kids do and dont do....they cant get past this.
Free blocks
Stop the kids and the porn etc.
Well worth a look.  I know some of your ISPs can do this, but not all.

[nanotm]

yeah in the last few months plusnets dns servers have become utter garbage I have one of them setup as the secondary still but now have the primary as google's server although that seems to struggle from tiem to time with the load its under /

[yahoo2u2]

others are available. The software link will find the best one for you, but slow, just leave it running over night.

[thebishman]

All sounds fantastically clever!! (Wtf is he on about??)

[gill2009]

May 30, 2016 11:13:58 GMT thebishman said:

All sounds fantastically clever!! (Wtf is he on about??)

                  

[GunJack]

DNS servers are basically a massive lookup, they convert any web address from www.whatever.com to the pure IP address, eg 208.67.222.222 (which incidentally is one of the OpenDNS servers), sorting out routing of data packets as they go and they all operate at different speeds, which can speed up/slow down how your internet traffic behaves......

.... although a few milliseconds here or there doesn't make a massive difference, a few hundred milliseconds can and does