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Improve the speed of your Internet Conection by choosing th Best DNS for you

I just came across a nice piece of at code.google.com , It is just a DNS benchmarking utility to give you the best possible DNS in your location to speed of your connection.
We all know that DNS is the most important part of the internet. While surfing DNS servers are first called by the browser to convert the URL in to the IP address of that particular site. Therefore if the DNS server is slow there will be initial delay before the website starts to load & even the best connection will lag behind if the DNS is slow.

Most of the times DNS provided by our ISPs are not the fastest & nor does that means that 3rd party DNS is better or faster they can be better or worse. There are many 3rd party DNS server like Open DNS, Google Public DNS, Ultra DNS, etc...

Not all may be suitable for you so how do you choose the one best for you that's where 'namebench' steps in. Its a cross platform utility which tests all available DNS for your connection & shows the results. This small program (>5mb) can run on Windows, MAC OS X, UNIX. The tests time take around an hour to perform full tests.
It is a very simple program & is available in GUI as well as command line.
You can download this utility from here.
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