Faster Internet | Speedup Comcast | Google DNS

Sick of your browser saying “resolving host” well if you are like me you realize that this is actually a comcast problem. Yes they can provide you with a 16mb downstream connection but they can’t resolve their hosts fast enough to do anything useful with it.

Today I decided I’d try google’s public dns http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html and I’m so impressed. Go figure that the world leader in internet technology would also have the fastest dns available.

Step two was to move my router away from my cable modem. I recently read a post describing the electrical interference that a cable modem can have. When placed next to eachother the wireless router spends all it’s time negotiating errors. Once I moved it four feet away from my modem my speed doubled.

My comcast 6m connection is now testing out at 6.6mb down 5.5mb up. Match this and I’ll be impressed.

After noticing the increase I went ahead and changed the dns information on my router so all machines on my network are now accessing pages twice as fast.

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