A good solution to speeding up web browsing is to try Google Public DNS, a free, alternative, global DNS resolution service. Being made by Google, which is now the largest public DNS service in the world, handling an average of more than 70 billion requests a day, users of the service will experience faster browsing speeds as well as improved security compared to a private DNS service. The public service accomplishes fast speeds and better performance through the implementation of large-scale, global caching infrastructure to handle a large portion of DNS queries from cache. As for security, Google has many solutions in place to prevent malicious attacks on users of the service such as denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and cache poisoning attacks with the use of security measures such as basic validity checking and randomization. In order to configure Google Public DNS for your network, Google has detailed instructions on their website to get their DNS service up and running. For instance, to configure Google Public DNS for Windows 7, here are the following steps:
Go the Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center > Change adapter settings
Select the connection for which you want to configure Google Public DNS. For example: a. To change the settings for an Ethernet connection, right-click Local Area Connection, and click Properties. b. To change the settings for a wireless connection, right-click Wireless Network Connection, and click Properties.
If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
Select the Networking tab. Under This connection uses the following items, select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) or Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) and then click Properties.
Click Advanced and select the DNS tab. If there are any DNS server IP addresses listed there, write them down in case anything goes wrong, and remove them from this window.
Click OK.
Select Use the following DNS server addresses. If there are any IP addresses listed in the Preferred DNS server or Alternate DNS server, write them down in case anything goes wrong.
Replace those addresses with the IP addresses of the Google DNS servers: a. For IPv4: 8.8.8.8 and/or 8.8.4.4 b. For IPv6: 2001:4860:4860::8888 and/or 2001:4860:4860::8844
Restart the connection you selected in step 3.
Test that your setup is working correctly. Repeat the procedure for additional network connections you want to change. You can use the same settings for any other operating systems as well as modems and routers. Tell us in comments that Do you really like this idea of Google DNS?
