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 (e.g., http://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 /flushdns. Then do a nslookup for any web address and you should see 1e100.net with 8.8.8.8 as the IP address for the DNS resolver.

C:\ipconfig /flushdns

Windows IP Configuration
Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.

C:\nslookup www.microsoft.com
Server: any-in-0808.1e100.net
Address: 8.8.8.8

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: lb1.www.ms.akadns.net
Addresses: 64.4.31.252 207.46.19.190 207.46.19.254
Aliases: www.microsoft.com toggle.www.ms.akadns.net g.www.ms.akadns.net

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[reaperwayne]

Hi what would the advantage to doing this if any ? thanks.

[Britec09]

@reaperwayne faster internet

[pcfix411]

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[Britec09]

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[muniecadereynoville]

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[cobravipv]

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[03456]

thanks very much

[bharatkumargupta]

@Starryz97 yes u can, select ur wireless adaptop in network settings

[Starryz97]

can i use this menthod on wireless connection?

[V0xyLady]

Can you please translate what one would need to do for Windows 7 as a few people are not able to translate this information to the Windows 7 system.

Thanks

Leonie Easterbrook aka Voxy Lady

[sizzurpsippin650]

would this increase my wifi speed as well

[jefferson6246]

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[ssantosh78]

I used below guide worked..

mytricks.in/2011/08/how-to-blo­­ck-websites-in-network.html

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