Rev Up Your Internet Connection

Just found out about a very good new tool that Google has developed caled Namebench. What it is designed to do is scour the DNS servers available to you and find the fastest one available. It uses data from your browser history. It does require you to go out ad physically input the DNS IP information that it provides you however. This is relatively easy. You can goto Google's website to download the FREE application:

Once you have downloaded and installed the application, you pick your browser and let it run. It does take some time as it's a pretty thorough search of servers. It will come up with the servers and how much faster your browsing will be once you change to the recommended servers. Your primary and secondary servers can be input then by START/My Netwrk Places/View Network Connections/ - Right Click on your current network adapter and choose Properties. Next Scroll down in the "Connections uses the following items box" until you get to Internet Connections (TCP/IP) Highlight it and click the Properties button below. Once there at the bottom you will see "Use the folowing DNS server addresses, click the radio button and input the IP addresses you got from Namebench matching Primary and Secondary DNS servers.Clcik OK on the two open windows and you are done. I was able to speed up my connection by a whopping 36% using this tool. Thats a big help!