How Google Public DNS Speed Up Internet?
Google announced the release of Public DNS Resolver called Google Public DNS, as part of its effort to make the web faster. (What is DNS? Read this) DNS or also known as Domain Name Service is an important service to allow Internet surfers reach a web site. Without it I don’t think we can access to web site worldwide so easy.
Why You Should Try Google Public DNS?
Web browsing speed depends much on DNS respond time. A complex web page may require multiple DNS lookups before they start loading. Faster DNS respond load your website fast too.
The Public DNS service come with 2 main features:
- Speed up Web browsing experience
- Improve Security
Google make your Internet run faster by enhanced the DNS resolver with better Caching, Load Balancing, and Server Clustering. For security part, it rejects responses that do not meet required criteria. Did I mentioned it is FREE? Yes, FREE for who want to speed up their Internet and better security.
How To Use Google Public DNS?
As easy as 1-2-3. Go to Network settings > Change the DNS server to Primary as 8.8.8.8 and Secondary as 8.8.4.4 (Cool numbers huh? And it is easy to remember). That’s it. Restart your web browser and try access this page to compare the speed.
I changed my local DNS service to Google Public DNS, it give me extremely fast experience. This blog load at least 50% faster than before. Thanks Google for make my Internet run faster on the slow connection. What are you waiting for? Try it and tell me your experience at comment below. 
Comments
Comment from Making A Will
Time December 8, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Fascinating stuff,this. Google is obviously pressing hard to improve their users’ experience by offering faster results, and that means they will penalise websites that load too slowly.
We all need to work on this!
Regards,
John
Comment from Ngan
Time December 7, 2009 at 5:21 PM
I tried OpenDNS and tested the loading time for various blogs, Google DNS appears to be faster.