Speed up your Internet connection
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Many times we don’t realize that the DNS server/lookup can be very time consuming. This can add to a few seconds of delay for every website page that you load. This happens because the default DNS servers provided by your ISP is crappy, overloaded or just not configured correctly.
There is a solution to improve all this though.
Use a combination of FastCache and the OpenDNS DNS configuration.
FastCache is a caching DNS server that runs on your local machine and handles any DNS request that your computer makes, from Internet Explorer to your favorite FTP client. Rather than specifying the DNS servers of your ISP, you can use the ones provided by OpenDNS.
This combination will help speed up the connections significantly.
