Rubbish Broadband? Try This

Saturday, 18th December at 12:18pm

Since moving into a new house with a different internet service provider, I’ve experienced slow speeds and more annoyingly, problems connecting to websites; often connection takes a long time and occasionally things even time out. This is particularly apparent and annoying when loading websites which contain a lot of content that is embedded from many external sources (rather than the content being on the server of said website). Things like Abduzeedo’s daily inspiration posts are a good example of this. An additional annoyance was that “www.” and “.com” were not automatically appended to a term entered into the address bar and I was instead graced with a “[unnamed ISP] cannot connect to server” message. Lame.

After a bit of research, it appeared that my DNS server might be the issue, so I changed over to Google’s public DNS and… Yes! Better connections!

To try this yourself and possibly improve your connections, head over to code.google.com and follow the very clear Google instructions there.

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