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To get faster internet speed, I’d like to tell you about OpenDNS. You can also use Google DNS for speeding up your internet. OpenDNS is one of the most popular free DNS services that was started to provide an alternative method to the users who weren’t satisfied with their existing DNS servers.

How to configure OpenDNS in Microsoft Windows?
By following the steps mentioned below, you can set OpenDNS as the preferred DNS server in Microsoft Windows. This will allows various applications to perform nslookup using OpenDNS rather than your ISP’s default DNS servers.

  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.
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  4. On the next window that pops, click Properties.
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  5. Click the Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and click on Properties.
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  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.
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Now, you are using OpenDNS’s servers now which helps you to get a faster internet speed.

How to configure IPv6 custom DNS:

Since the adoption of IPv6 addresses is on the rise, it’s time you should configure iPv6 DNS servers as well. Highlight the Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) and click Properties.

Choose the following DNS server addresses:

  • Preferred DNS server: 2620:0:ccc::2
  • Alternate DNS server: 2620:0:ccd::2
How to configure Google Public DNS in Microsoft Windows?
Replace those addresses with the IP addresses of the Google DNS servers in step 6.

For IPv4: 8.8.8.8 and/or 8.8.4.4.

For IPv6: 2001:4860:4860::8888 and/or 2001:4860:4860::8844

Conclusion

In a nutshell, OpenDNS, Google DNS are reduce the time taken to resolve the domain name on the web and make the internet faster in the process. Obviously, it won’t increase the maximum available bandwidth for your connection. Moreover, they are more reliable than the default ones used by your ISP. Do I need to mention one of them is maintained by Google? These custom DNS servers face downtime, due to power outages or some other hardware issues, less often.

Both Google DNS and OpenDNS work just fine but people prefer Google DNS these days. You can choose to go for any of these and see if your internet speeds up.

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