GemMan 96 Report post Posted July 4, 2013 Switch to OpenDNS or Google DNS to Speed Up Web Browsing Your local internet service provider probably doesn’t have the fastest DNS servers, and that can slow down your browsing, since your browser needs to look up the IP address of every web site you try to view. Here is how to switch to either OpenDNS or Google DNS for faster browsing times. Switching to a Better DNS Provider The first thing we need to do is right-click on the network status notification icon and choose to Open the Network and Sharing Center from the context menu. Then click on the Change adapter settings hyperlink on the left-hand side of the Network and Sharing Center. Now right-click on the network adapter you wish to change the DNS settings for and select properties from the context menu. When the properties for your network adapter open, you will need to select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP / IPv4) from the list, then click properties. Our example will have opened the IPv4 settings for your network adapter. You will see in the bottom half of the dialog that your PC is set to get its DNS settings “automatically”. You will need to change that so that we can manually specify the DNS servers we want to use. Now simply choose a service below and enter the DNS server addresses. Google DNS Preferred: 8.8.8.8 Alternate: 8.8.4.4 OpenDNS Preferred: 208.67.222.222 Alternate: 208.67.220.220 We opted to go with Google DNS for now — while they could use this data to track your browsing habits, personally we’re not that worried about it. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
littlebit 247 Report post Posted July 6, 2013 How can I do this on WindowsXP,and will this work? Thanks for the tech info! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eatmyshorts 201 Report post Posted July 9, 2013 We opted to go with Google DNS for now — while they could use this data to track your browsing habits, personally we’re not that worried about it. Should be with all this privacy US/UK malarky going on at the moment. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GemMan 96 Report post Posted July 14, 2013 the same tabs should work on XP although screens are of windows 7 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
