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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 result...

Open DNS

DHave you encountered some sites not opening in your broadband although the connection works fine with other sites also sometimes your connection refuses to work even though signal is coming. Mostly MTNL Triband & BSNL faces this problem. This because of the fact that their DNS Servers are facing downtime. DNS is used to convert the URL entered by you into the machine understandable form. Once the site address is resolved the work DNS is over. But due to downtime DNS is not able to resolve the address due to which your browser is not able to open the website even when the Internet connection is working. To solve this issue there is a simple solution of using a third-party DNS server. The best third party DNS is OpenDNS it is free service anyone can use their DNS with any Internet connection. Its also free. To use OpenDNS you do not need to install any software all you need is just open your Internet Properties from My Network Places on desktop Then open Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)...