How to Setup Google DNS on Windows XP and Vista & 7 by Britec
How to Setup Google DNS on Windows XP and Vista by britec.co.uk Like OpenDNS, Google today launched their own public DNS service that they say will make your web-surfing experience “faster, safer and more reliable. If you want to access a site (say example.com) from your browser, your computer needs the IP address of the web server that is hosting that domain. The computer will then query a public DNS server to find the IP address of the site example.com. This DNS server is generally maintained by your ISP but now you can instruct your computer (or wireless router) to use Googles DNS server instead of your ISPs DNS server. Google says their Public DNS Servers are hosted in data centers worldwide, and they use anycast routing to send users to the geographically closest data center. If you are keen on making the switch to Google DNS, herere the steps involved for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Select Internet Protocol Version 4 TCP-IPv4, followed by Properties and them replace the IP addresses of your Preferred DNS server and Alternate DNS server with the IP addresses of the Google DNS servers which are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 – the order doesnt matter. In case you would like to setup Google DNS at the router level, open your router dashboard (eg, 192.168.1.1) and put the Google DNS server addresses (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) as your DNS server settings and apply. How to Test Google DNS Servers Open your command prompt and clear your DNS cache using the command ipconfig Then do a …
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Time May 27, 2010 at 6:38 am
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my problem is that I want to play online on ps2 and when it performs the DNAS authentification it says: error from response of the DNS server…or something like that…please check your network configuration and try again…AND IT DOESN’T WORK
Comment from james227uk
Time May 27, 2010 at 10:44 am
Both work?
Comment from Britec09
Time May 27, 2010 at 11:04 am
Yeah you can do it in router if you want.
Comment from james227uk
Time May 27, 2010 at 11:38 am
I also followed this and it worked. Thanks. I thought I had to enter the values into the router’s config
Comment from Britec09
Time May 27, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Yeah good point, sorry James should of said about WiFi
Comment from james227uk
Time May 27, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Why should it be Local Area Connection? Many people have Wifi, and for them it will not be LAN.
Comment from Britec09
Time May 27, 2010 at 1:13 pm
its ment to be faster then you ISP DNS, watch my next video and your understand a bit more
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Bringing out my ten foot pole again .
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Time May 27, 2010 at 6:36 am
@reaperwayne faster internet