Free DNS Benchmark Helps you Speed up Browsing

Many people are interested in the computer as an end unto itself. And that is fine, for that is what some of us do for a living. But for the vast majority of "users" the computer is a tool that is used to get something done, and they don't need to know how it works.

They said the same thing about the Color TV when it first came out. You don't need to know how to adjust the convergence magnets in order to watch the Ed Sullivan show.

Just because someone doesn't understand Steve's cryptic diagnostics on his little program, it doesn't mean that he is clueless. It also doesn't mean that he needs to understand the nuts and bolts of DNS in order to be able to use the service.

System administrators often make the mistake of calling someone a "stupid user". It would be like the waitress calling you stupid because you don't know how to make a pot of coffee on the Bunn model 2000 V7.a beta pre-release enterprise version industrial coffee maker, or whatever the current version of that "tool" is.

I came here for the coffee, and not to learn how to make coffee.

I don't see how any body who read the info at the link could be unsure of what the results mean. It tests how quickly various DNS sites such as your ISP's default servers, Open DNS, Comodo DNS,and so on would connect your PC browser to the internet. On opening the program click on the "Nameservers" tab and in the screen that appears click on the "Run Benchmark" tab and let it run, it takes approx 7mins on my PC. Once it has finished it presents the results as a scale with the fastest servers at the top and the slowest at the bottom. Then click on the "Conclusions" tab and it will tell you how good, bad or indifferent your present set up is. It tells you to try the test at different times of day over a period to gain a balanced outcome. In my case I use the Comodo DNS server addresses and after running this program once a day for a week it consistently told me that the back up Comodo address I had installed was faster than the primary address I was using and so I changed them about. It also told me that there were 8 faster servers than the one I was using, but as I am quite satisfied with the speed of the ones I have at present I decided to leave them installed. It certainly isn't rocket science and if an 60yr old gadgy like me can figure it out then it can't be too difficult, can it.

Getting this error while try to download:
HTTP 404 - File not found

I currently use Open DNS it also costs nothing
found it very good

I have used many of the freeware security utilities for years. The "Shoot the Messenger", "Unplug n' Pray", and the "DCOMbobulator". The details about each are on its page, so I won't repeat them here. Each program does one thing to make your pc safer, but it does it very well. I am definitely going to check out the rest of the utilities.

It sure does generate a *lot* of numbers. Useful? Whelp, it *seems* to be saying something but I've got no idea what, so no, not much.

Me confused. Me unhappy only that me waste much time with this. Me smarter that next time, me learn not to mess with this.