How to make your internet faster!

[Jelly Boy]

1. To get a faster internet speed using OpenDNS, open Control Panel.
2. Go to Network and Sharing Center.
3. Here, click the name of the network connection, be it WiFi or Ethernet.
   
4. On the next window that pops, click Properties.
   
5. Click the Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and click on Properties.
   
6. Now click Use the following DNS server addresses radio button and enter the addresses given below to get a faster internet speed:
   Preferred DNS server: 208.67.222.222
   Alternate DNS server: 208.67.220.220
   If you want, you can interchange these addresses. Click OK to save and continue.
   

[You_are_a_cunt]

Changing your DNS does squat for internet speed.

Your ISP still dictates your bandwidth and data caps (if any)

[Jelly Boy]

Just now, revsilverspine said:

Changing your DNS does squat for internet speed.

Your ISP still dictates your bandwidth and data caps (if any)

It does affect the ping.

[Lurick]

3 minutes ago, Jelly Boy said:

It does affect the ping.

It does not impact ping.

The only thing that would be impacted is the resolution time of the DNS to IP address and maybe a couple hops though different servers depending on the site being resolved.

 

Changing DNS from your ISP's default to something else can speed up site loading times and resolution times though but as for actual speed, it wont.

[desertcomputer]

8 minutes ago, Jelly Boy said:

It does affect the ping.

You know a local caching DNS server would be a better solution. 

 

No it doesn't effect ping, it only effect initial ping/response time. After getting the IP, your local machine will cache that DNS name with an IP. The rest is under your ISP routing. 

 

 

[Jelly Boy]

Just now, Lurick said:

It does not impact ping.

The only thing that would be impacted is the resolution time of the DNS to IP address and maybe a couple hops though different servers depending on the site being resolved.

It did on mine:

 

Without Trick:                                        With Trick

 

Ping: 0.17                                              Ping: 17

MBPS Download: 58.30mbps               MBPS Download: 67.24mbps

MBPS Upload: 54.67mbps                    MBPS Upload: 65.28mbps

[gibbsy81]

16 minutes ago, Jelly Boy said:

It does affect the ping.

 

8 minutes ago, Jelly Boy said:

It did on mine:

 

Without Trick:                                        With Trick

 

Ping: 0.17                                              Ping: 17

MBPS Download: 58.30mbps               MBPS Download: 67.24mbps

MBPS Upload: 54.67mbps                    MBPS Upload: 65.28mbps

It reduces the amount of time it takes to convert a site such as google.com to 2404:6800:4006:803::200e or 216.58.199.46

Althrough caching dns queries within your network would be much faster.

[System Error Message]

this doesnt do anything only set a manual DNS server. You might as well set it on your router.

If you want faster internet, switch to a router like mikrotik with CPU connected ports, it will shave up to 2ms off your ping. You can apply the DNS servers on the router too. I would recommend the CCR1009 as it has CPU connected ports, SFP, passively cooled variant, multi gigabit internet ready.

 

This way by using both a better router and DNS on the router it will improve your speeds better.

[desertcomputer]

28 minutes ago, Jelly Boy said:

It did on mine:

 

Without Trick:                                        With Trick

 

Ping: 0.17                                              Ping: 17

MBPS Download: 58.30mbps               MBPS Download: 67.24mbps

MBPS Upload: 54.67mbps                    MBPS Upload: 65.28mbps

I would need more proof of that anyways, one test doesn't show it will actually work. I presume you used speed test, did you use same server location and was the test conducted where no other users/computer are using the network? I mean there are a lot of variable that could gave you that result. 

[Jelly Boy]

1 hour ago, MrUnknownEMC said:

I would need more proof of that anyways, one test doesn't show it will actually work. I presume you used speed test, did you use same server location and was the test conducted where no other users/computer are using the network? I mean there are a lot of variable that could gave you that result. 

Yes.

[AshleyAshes]

Your computer has the vast majority of DNS addresses cached locally anyway.  

[mynameisjuan]

I am a tier 3 for an ISP.

 

That trick does not increase speeds. You get what I provision you at. Period. 

[Emmien]

Where did you learn this from?

 

How will changing where addresses are converted to IPs help bandwidth?

[Jelly Boy]

26 minutes ago, Emmien said:

Where did you learn this from?

 

How will changing where addresses are converted to IPs help bandwidth?

Dunno, but it's just stronger and faster!

[Emmien]

3 minutes ago, Jelly Boy said:

Dunno, but it's just stronger and faster!

No it isn't. Something else has changed.

[njmyers3]

I would just use DNS caching on pfSense so it affects the whole network  

It seems tedious to change it on every computer

[Akolyte]

 

8 hours ago, Jelly Boy said:

It did on mine:

 

Without Trick:                                        With Trick

 

Ping: 0.17                                              Ping: 17

MBPS Download: 58.30mbps               MBPS Download: 67.24mbps

MBPS Upload: 54.67mbps                    MBPS Upload: 65.28mbps

I'm not 100% sure you know what DNS is, so let me explain in very basic terms and I will then explain why this is not a solid performance-increasing solution. 

 

DNS is a Domain Name System, it;s used to resolve names into IP Addresses, and can be used for vice-versa.  Using a high quality DNS Service like OpenDNS does have benefits, like decreased DNS Query time due to better servers & infrastructure and lots of caching.  It is no secret that OpenDNS caches on their servers.  This means OpenDNS can be faster if you are close to it, unfortunately here in New Zealand I cannot receive those benefits as the nearest OpenDNS server is in Australia. 

 

The reason this shouldn't be increasing internet upload and download is found in the above paragraph, because DNS is only used to resolve domain names and vice-versa. The download itself occurs from the IP address and not from the domain name (as far as I'm aware).  The only way this would improve is if you were running a proxy server, which is routing your connection through another server.  Often done for anonymity or connecting to a service that the proxy is white-listed to. 

 

Although I'm not directly blaming you for fabricating those above stats, I'm also curious as to why the ping without the trick is 0.17 which is faster than with the trick, which has a ping of 17.  While the download and upload are opposite in terms of where they should be according to the ping speed.  This means that either your connection is extremely flakky, or you fabricated those statistics.  

 

OpenDNS is a great DNS Service, and does indeed have many benefits depending on your location to the server + your needs (filtering, caching etc).  But I don't think it should cause an improvement in this context.  Best of luck Jelly Boy!  

[Chaz042]

@Jelly Boy After 5 years in IT, please don't change the DNS settings on the client side..... It should only be done on the router or server side.

 

By changing the DNS on the client side it can break netbios name resolution. This is if you are on your own network,  if you're on a college or business network, it may cause you to lose access to internal resources depending on firewall and DNS rules, you may even lose full internet access. Another issue while adding the rest of the issues on top, the router or firewall may redirect your DNS request to whoever else they normally use without you knowing.
 

Changing your DNS servers won't speed up your internet, just the resolution of DNS names to IP addresses. Also, Open DNS isn't even the fastest or easiest to remember, Google is 8.8.8.8 (Primary) and 8.8.4.4 (Secondary), another good option is Level 3, although, they do resolve names to their own service when no record is found, not good . 4.4.4.3, 4.4.4.4, and 4.4.4.5 to my knowledge, they also have 2 other servers at 209.244.0.X, he's a list.... https://www.lifewire.com/free-and-public-dns-servers-2626062

 

With all that's been said, we still haven't covered IPv6, you have IPv6 and fail to change these servers as well, then you fail. IPv6 I believe is served over IPv4 in almost every case if your ISP gives you IPv6 and your router has it configured. If you want the best DNS servers for you, use this tool by GRC's "DNS Benchmark
Domain Name Speed Benchmark tool" here: https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm I don't think it supports IPv6 however .

 

 

TL:DR: You shouldn't change your DNS on your PC/Phone it can break stuff. OpenDNS is not always best depending on ISP. IPv6 will also need to be changed if you go this route and you have IPv6 enabled. Use this tool for the best IPv4 DNS servers.

[desertcomputer]

1 hour ago, Chaz042 said:

@Jelly Boy After 5 years in IT, please don't change the DNS settings on the client side..... It should only be done on the router or server side.

 

By changing the DNS on the client side it can break netbios name resolution. This is if you are on your own network,  if you're on a college or business network, it may cause you to lose access to internal resources depending on firewall and DNS rules, you may even lose full internet access. Another issue while adding the rest of the issues on top, the router or firewall may redirect your DNS request to whoever else they normally use without you knowing.
 

Changing your DNS servers won't speed up your internet, just the resolution of DNS names to IP addresses. Also, Open DNS isn't even the fastest or easiest to remember, Google is 8.8.8.8 (Primary) and 8.8.4.4 (Secondary), another good option is Level 3, although, they do resolve names to their own service when no record is found, not good . 4.4.4.3, 4.4.4.4, and 4.4.4.5 to my knowledge, they also have 2 other servers at 209.244.0.X, he's a list.... https://www.lifewire.com/free-and-public-dns-servers-2626062

 

With all that's been said, we still haven't covered IPv6, you have IPv6 and fail to change these servers as well, then you fail. IPv6 I believe is served over IPv4 in almost every case if your ISP gives you IPv6 and your router has it configured. If you want the best DNS servers for you, use this tool by GRC's "DNS Benchmark
Domain Name Speed Benchmark tool" here: https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm I don't think it supports IPv6 however .

 

 

TL:DR: You shouldn't change your DNS on your PC/Phone it can break stuff. OpenDNS is not always best depending on ISP. IPv6 will also need to be changed if you go this route and you have IPv6 enabled. Use this tool for the best IPv4 DNS servers.

There are also some enterprise/business side DNS servers which i tested to have better responded time compare to consumer dns server provided and especially during peak hours, some ISP dns will get higher respond time than usual but doesn't happen everyday. 

[LienusLateTips]

11 hours ago, Jelly Boy said:

It does affect the ping.

Nope, it doesn't.

11 hours ago, Jelly Boy said:

It did on mine:

 

Without Trick:                                        With Trick

 

Ping: 0.17                                              Ping: 17

MBPS Download: 58.30mbps               MBPS Download: 67.24mbps

MBPS Upload: 54.67mbps                    MBPS Upload: 65.28mbps

Caching DNS would be faster. It's probably your ISP using a really slow DNS. Mine is really fast so it won't matter.

 

[Jelly Boy]

21 hours ago, JDE said:

Nope, it doesn't.

Caching DNS would be faster. It's probably your ISP using a really slow DNS. Mine is really fast so it won't matter.

 

Ok, whatever you say.

[LienusLateTips]

28 minutes ago, Jelly Boy said:

Ok, whatever you say.

Try using Google's DNS. It's probably faster than OpenDNS.

[mynameisjuan]

On 8/26/2017 at 5:14 PM, Jelly Boy said:

Ok, whatever you say.

Dude changing you DNS doesnt affect ping and doesnt affect speeds. I dont know why you are in such denial about it.