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Speed up Your Internet Browsing with Google Public DNS

By Deepanker

Updated on March 17, 2018

Speed up Your Internet Browsing with Google Public DNS

Want to boost your internet speed? Try Google Public DNS and enjoy faster web browsing. Google Public DNS is a free DNS resolution service that you can use as an alternate DNS lookup service to your current DNS provider.On the internet when we request for a website via the browser, request goes to the DNS server. DNS server translates the domain to IP address and request goes to the website server on that IP. The whole process takes time of few milliseconds depending on the ISPs DNS. By using Google Public DNS, you save few more milliseconds as the Google DNS is faster.

Why You Should Change your DNS settings to Google Public DNS

DNS protocol is an important part of a web. As we have described, each time we request a web page, it makes a request to DNS. DNS Lookup takes few milliseconds to resolve domain to IP. Sometimes, A request is transferred from one DNS to other. Few complex pages often require multiple DNS lookups. So your computer performs hundred of DNS lookup in a day. Using Google DNS will save few milliseconds on each lookup. By using Google Public DNS you can:

Speed up your browsing experience.
Improve your security.
Get the results you expect with absolutely no redirection.

How to Use Google Open DNS on your computer

For using Google Open DNS, you only need to configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers. This also supports IPv6.

Go to the IP v4 properties and add following Ip address to DNS server address. You can also interchange these IP address. But never use same IP address.

Preferred DNS Server: 8.8.8.8
Alternate DNS Server: 8.8.4.4

Preferred DNS Server: 8.8.4.4
Alternate DNS Server: 8.8.8.8
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If you are using IPv6 then you should use IP v6 DNS server address.
The Google Public DNS IPv6 addresses are as follows:

2001:4860:4860::88882001:4860:4860::8844

If you are now sure how to configure your computer to us Google Public DNS, you can read the detailed article on this configuration here. Read more about Google Public DNS here.

Final words

If your ISP provides you good service, you may note notice the difference because it could be of milliseconds. But, it is always faster. While browsing the web, it will load pages bit quicker. I added the screenshot for showing how to change it in Windows. Similarly, you can add this on Linux, Mac or other operating systems.

In case of any problem, you can comment below.