How To Increase Your Internet Speed with Open DNS

How To Increase Your Internet Speed with Open DNS

Some ISP companies don't have the best DNS servers and changing them to a much more faster and stable DNS can speed up your internet browsing experience

OpenDNS
OpenDNS uses the following public IP addresses: 208.67.222.222 (primary) and 208.67.220.220.

OpenDNS also provides some IPv6 DNS support using 2620:0:ccc::2 and 2620:0:ccd::2.

Google Public DNS
Google Public DNS uses the following public IP addresses:

IPv4: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
IPv6: 2001:4860:4860::8888 and 2001:4860:4860::8844

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[Emran_]

Thank you very much i was looking for some internet boosting methods and youre notification has brought me here :D

[leswhitehouse]

Thanks Brian. I'll try this tomorrow!

[KeronBullock]

Great video! Thanks for sharing. I have used open DNS before and it works very well.

[nevillepillay]

Britec is cool and best keep it up with the best videos u show us

[davidmoran]

I suggest you use one of each Google free DNS and OpenDNS that way if either service is not available you have the second provider as your secondary DNS lookup provider. I did have a situation where I had no route to Google for a period of time where I used to work.

[phangblox]

this is really helpful it works thanks

[hishamania]

thanks a million..!!!! works blazingly fast ... thx sir

[victoriusalexander]

Thank you much for explaining it so simple, clear and succinct. My laptop is running extremely faster on a Free Open DNS and it made my life workflow faster!!

[davidgates]

Hi, great vid. I see some people are saying it would be better to change the DNS on your router. Would you do a vid on how to do that please? thanks. Also, where do you get those desktop pics? Your doing a great job, keep it up.

[Zachsnotboard]

Would I need to do this in a vm as well as my main os?

[GregM]

Also can use Quad9 aka 9.9.9.9 for DNS they are rolling out more DNS servers this year. Changing DNS though will only speed lookups aka www.sitenamehere.com to its IP address aka 123.456.789.111 however if your ISP has provisioned your line for 5Mbps down you are not going to get 50Mbps speed. You may not even get your speed you are paying for.

You can enter the DNS numbers in your router configuration screen so that the router will use the new DNS for all lookups. By default all devices connecting to a router either via wifi or wired use the IP address of the router for the device's DNS. This means changing the DNS In the router will allow all the connected devices to use the same DNS.

[DarkBrutusZM]

OMG I just download a 1gb file in just 1 day! unlike last year, it took me like 4 days or more! but thanks for the video!

[ShounenN]

Umm is this region based, should I use something else when I am in Serbia or is this the same everywhere?

[immenseTie]

should you have web browsed non-cached pages to test?? but great vid.

[crusadershuakbar]

thanks brian, i had these once before but lost and forgotten. is it advisable to use these dns address`s with any installed VPN`s ??

[studiotutorials]

My download speed went from 10 mbps to around 34. Definitely wasn't expecting that big of an increase, thanks 👍

[omarrpika]

Brian, does my internet also works on Android and iPad devices?

[Burgercat]

Hey!, can you do a tutorial on how to force users to use opendns coz they can bypass the web filter by changing the proxy or using vpn

[mousegeek]

Thanks. Great video.

What kind of bitter simpletons thumb down videos just to be annoying! Can you even begin to imagine how stupid these people are!

[trilochanbailur]

Many thanks for all your invaluable videos on upkeep, repair and improving the performance of Windows. For example, I was able to reduce my Windows 10 boot time from something like 2 minutes 30 seconds to just 30 seconds by following the tips you had provided in one of your videos. However, I am sad to say that I was not able to increase my Internet speed even the least bit by following the tips you had given in your video on DNS servers. I have an optic cable Internet connection without any Wi Fi but a modem that connects directly to my laptop. Could this be the problem? Please see if you can help me to increase my Internet speed in any way for which, I would be much obliged to you. Many thanks once again. Incidentally, you might like to know that I live in India. Does the geographic area have anything to do with my failure to achieve increased Internet speed?