Increase Your Browsing Speed

This is ONLY FOR HOME USERS (Dialup & Broadband)

No matter how big the broadband pipe you use to surf the Web, it's not big enough. Everyone, whether they use a slowpoke dial-up modem or the fastest FiOS line, wants to surf faster.

There's a simple way you can get to Web sites faster, and it won't cost you a penny. You can hack the way your PC uses the Domain Name System (DNS), the technology underlying all Web browsing. It's far simpler to do than you might imagine.

DNS servers live on the Internet, and your computer contacts them with the request to do that translation, which is commonly called name resolution. When you use an ISP, your computer will automatically use the default DNS servers specified by your ISP; you typically don't need to set up DNS in any way. If you're on a corporate network, your systems administrator may have set you up to use specific DNS servers.

Here's the simplest way to hack DNS to speed up your Web browsing: Use free, superfast DNS servers run by the OpenDNS service instead of your ISP's DNS servers. OpenDNS has a monstrously big DNS cache, with DNS servers around the world, so you'll be able to retrieve IP addresses from it more quickly than from your ISP's DNS servers.

If you have Windows XP, go to Settings --> Control Panel --> Network Connections --> Local Area Connection, right-click on Local Area connection and click on Properties.

A dialog box will appear (shown below)



Scroll down to the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) listing and select Properties.

At the bottom of the screen, select "Use the following DNS server addresses."

For the Preferred DNS server, enter this address: 208.67.222.222.
For the Alternative DNS server, enter this address: 208.67.220.220.
Click OK,

The figure below shows the screen filled out properly.

Click Close and restart your PC in order for the settings to take effect.

Now go to Start-> Run-> and type gpedit.msc

Group Policy - dialog box will appear

On the left hand side, click the + sign of Administrative Templates

Then click the + sign of Network

Now click on QoS Packet Scheduler

On the right hand side, right click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth and click on Properties

Click on enabled and change the Bandwidth limit % to 0 %

What is Limit Reservable Bandwidth?
Limit Reservable Bandwidth determines the percentage of connection bandwidth that the system can reserve. This value limits the combined bandwidth reservations of all programs running on the system.
By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default.
If you enable this setting, you can use the "Bandwidth limit" box to adjust the amount of bandwidth the system can reserve.
If you disable this setting or do not configure it, the system uses the default value of 20 percent of the connection.

Important: If a bandwidth limit is set for a particular network adapter in the registry, this setting is ignored when configuring that network adapter.