Speed up Browsing by using better DNS servers.
Posted: Sun 23 Sep 2012, 06:37
Using the fastest and most reliable DNS servers for your particular location can dramatically improve browser performance.
Typically a DSL modem/router will request DNS servers from your ISP at each boot or be pre-programmed with a couple.
In either case they are likely to be reliable but not the fastest. A gain of say 15ms may not sound like much but will be multiplied up when you surf a typical site that does hundreds of lookups to "enhance your browsing experience" together with the current pre-emptive behaviour of browsers.
The method described here involves no changes to your router setup but rather supplements it using a facility already built into Puppy.
Briefly it entails first finding out the two best DNS servers for your location and then creating one simple text file populated with that information. (Tested under Slacko 5.3.3.2 with Wine-1.5.6-i486_v1)
STEPS:
1. Download "DNS Benchmark" from here:
http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
(It runs under Windows or Linux (with Wine) and requires no installation in either. Simply click on the .exe file to launch.)
2. Launch Benchmark and then click on "Run Benchmark". At the end of this first run you will be offered the opportunity to create a custom top 50 list for your location. It is vital that you do so. This takes about 30 odd minutes as it scans over 4000 servers globally and then produces a custom .ini file which it places in the same directory that it was launched from.
3. Exit Benchmark and then re-launch it and do another run which will use the .ini file for your specific location.
4. In your “etc
Typically a DSL modem/router will request DNS servers from your ISP at each boot or be pre-programmed with a couple.
In either case they are likely to be reliable but not the fastest. A gain of say 15ms may not sound like much but will be multiplied up when you surf a typical site that does hundreds of lookups to "enhance your browsing experience" together with the current pre-emptive behaviour of browsers.
The method described here involves no changes to your router setup but rather supplements it using a facility already built into Puppy.
Briefly it entails first finding out the two best DNS servers for your location and then creating one simple text file populated with that information. (Tested under Slacko 5.3.3.2 with Wine-1.5.6-i486_v1)
STEPS:
1. Download "DNS Benchmark" from here:
http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
(It runs under Windows or Linux (with Wine) and requires no installation in either. Simply click on the .exe file to launch.)
2. Launch Benchmark and then click on "Run Benchmark". At the end of this first run you will be offered the opportunity to create a custom top 50 list for your location. It is vital that you do so. This takes about 30 odd minutes as it scans over 4000 servers globally and then produces a custom .ini file which it places in the same directory that it was launched from.
3. Exit Benchmark and then re-launch it and do another run which will use the .ini file for your specific location.
4. In your “etc