Comments on: Speed Up Internet Explorer

By: Tariq Bamadhaj

Tariq Bamadhaj — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:31:28 +0000

This would help you much better. Don’t bother stuffing such numbers into your mind. It’ll just confuse you more.

By: becky

becky — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:55:07 +0000

This makes so much sense.. I think I first learned about the whole DNS system a few years ago… would be easier if I could remember the numbers as well the word domain names, but alas.. I’m not a genius. Hah.

By: Tariq Bamadhaj

Tariq Bamadhaj — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:38:26 +0000

Your settings switched back? What device are you using?

Like you said, it could be your location, or your provider or even your device’s configuration. It’s really hard to pinpoint a fault in this case but you can rest assured that if you tried those hacks and they do not work, then you can assume that those are not to be blamed for the slowdown.

Thanks for your compliments

By: Tariq Bamadhaj

Tariq Bamadhaj — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:36:56 +0000

In some cases, the delay is caused by a lack of priority for DNS lookups; all other activities such as trasmitting data are uninterrupted. In such an event, an alternative DNS would improve the name resolution because you send it to a location that would complete the query relatively faster.

Yeah I do agree that generally the ISP’s bandwidth should be sufficient; it’s just how they process the data behind the scenes that’s unknown.

By: motohead

motohead — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:58:38 +0000

I tied this a while back after seeing it on WMExperts but havent had the greatest results. Every time I go back into my connection settings, I find that my settings automatically switched back to “use server assigned addresses” even if I do not do a soft reset. Strange.

I also applied Malatesta’s reg edits to Increase “Maximum number of concurrent connections” in PIE. But again, I’m not noticing a dramatic difference in speed. It could be my location. Any ideas?

Keep up the great work with the blog!!

By: Henk-Jan

Henk-Jan — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:07:32 +0000

Now if the delay in surfing is caused by lack of priority in the IPS’s network - why will any alternative DNS server improve name resolution? It might even add delay rather than reducing it because DNS traffic now has to leave the provider’s network to OpenDNS over internet-exchanges that might be low on bandwidth. In general an ISP’s internal network will have sufficient bandwidth available, and at least more than their uplink to the rest of the internet…