So... it's a tutorial on how to switch over to use Google Public DNS. This isn't a tweak or to make things faster, but it's a nice way to get around Comcast ads in your browser instead of receiving server error messages.
Google's DNS will not make your connection any faster. DNS resolution is not your bottleneck. You ISP DNS server is probably a lot closer anyway.
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No, internet connection is not speeding up, but websites loading does.
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Nope, from now on you get cached copy of the local website recognized by the first three digits in the requested ip.
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Per the article:
"The only downer is that this new feature won’t affect everything on the web — at least not yet. For now you will only experience a speed-up if you’re using DNS servers belonging to Google or OpenDNS, and if you’re accessing a website or service powered by one of the participating CDNs: Google, EdgeCast, CDNetworks, Comodo, or CloudFlare."
"Perplexingly, there’s no real way of finding out which CDN your favorite websites uses — but merely the fact that Google is part of the initiative means that Gmail, YouTube, Docs, Picasa, and so on, should feel quite a lot faster today; for some users, anyway."
Also this:
The speedup for those sites and services is extremely minimal as well.
This is sensationalist journalism that do not have a clue on how the internet works.
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Well, I noticed youtube loading got faster. I am a non US resident.
Anyway, we should all change the dns servers to google :)
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This wouldn't help with web sites loading at all. It may help other things but not loading a web site. You may have felt changes or wanted to feel changes at the loading speeds. DNS resolves domain names to ip, like www.google.com to 74.125.127.99 . If you have a quicker response time with google DNS servers you may resolve domain names when you first visit them probably 10 to 100 miliseconds quicker. I'm pretty sure that you can't feel a difference of some miliseconds when you first visited youtube.com at the start of the day. It has other benefits but most of them serves as censorship or anti-censorship.
Also if you start to believe everything you read on the internet you'll either lose your money or be full of misinformation.
P.S.: "Anyway, we should all change the dns servers to google :)" I'm already not content with giving all my search, mail and social information to them, I wouldn't want to add another one to that list.
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At least it helps going around some governmental censorship, that's why I've been using these for the last century or so.
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So, I can watch Family Guy and other American TV shows if I use this?
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If the site is blocking users from outside the US then this will do nothing for you. You want a proxy or VPN to get past that.
Such sites check location by your IP address.
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If anyone wants to benchmark Google's public DNS servers against their own ISP's DSN servers they can do so here:
http://code.google.com/p/namebench/
It's worth noting there are many providers of public DNS servers, Google is far from the only one.
And at least in my case nowhere near the fastest either.
At least for me there was also one site that Google's primary public DSN server couldn't resolve the IP the domain name to IP address.
For most people their probably best off going through one of their ISP's DNS servers. It's easy enough to test and find out what's best for you though. Either way I wouldn't recommend just blindly assuming Google's public DNS server is the best for everyone.
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http://www.extremetech.com/internet/94408-does-your-web-feel-faster-today-thank-the-global-internet-speedup
Tutorial for speed up (Windows 7):
Control Panel > Network and sharing center > Change adapter settings > Right click on Local area network (or wireless network connection, depends what you are using) > Properties > Double click on Internet Protocol Version 4 > Check the box (Use the following DNS server addresses) > Write down: Preferred DNS : 8 8 8 8 / Alternate DNS : 8 8 4 4
Enjoy faster surfing ;) (it really works)
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