Tweaking Internet Speed in Windows Vista: OpenDNS

Here is a very impressive trick to tweak Windows Vista’s Internet Speed. This method is very similar to what we discussed in our post titled how to increase Internet speed using host files. The other articles are also very relevant How to Turn On Your PC in Under 10 Seconds , How to Double Firefox Browsing Speed on Dialup Connection and especially How to Optimize Your Internet Connection to Get 100 % Bandwidth

I am also thankful to maria0maria for sharing this with me. I see considerable increase in my Internet speed when I use it in combination of other tricks to make my windows vista work faster. Article starts now…

Even with the FiOS (Fiber Optic Service) connection I still feel that my browsing experience is not that blazing fast. Have you ever felt the same with your internet connection as well? Follow this simple Windows hack to experience a faster, better and secure internet browsing.

If you’d like some technical backgrounds of why this hack will improve and secure your internet browsing experience then read this paragraph. I’m not going to go into too much details but here are the basics.

Most of the browsing bottlenecks happen when you make a request for a domain name and the Domain Name Servers (DNS Servers) are too busy to not quickly respond back to your request to resolve the domain name to an IP address. No matter how much speed your ISP claims you’ll face this bottleneck if you rely on the age-old DNS Servers.

OpenDNS is a free Domain Name Service that does more than just resolve the domain names for you. Once registered (free and simple registration) you get quite a lot of control on how you manage your web browsing experience. Here are some of cool features of Open DNS that might convince you to make the switch (at least these made me to switch and I don’t regret at all)

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