Speed up your Internet connection

Posted on March 18, 2008 
Filed Under Internet, Software

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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.


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4 Responses to “Speed up your Internet connection”

  1. tv bracket on June 17th, 2008 10:30 am

    I will have to give this a shot. I am always looking to speed up the load time on pages. I live a little rural and my isp options are limited.

  2. hydraulic actuators on July 11th, 2008 5:12 am

    wow, interesting idea.. look we have 2mbps connection but still. we have in low time loading..

  3. Enterprise Risk Management on July 14th, 2008 8:19 pm

    thats cool… glad i came across this. ill have to give it a try.
    -jessica

  4. education faculty jobs on September 11th, 2008 9:38 am

    Thanks for the tips. I am looking forward to flying around the internet after using these.

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