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ohheckyeah

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6. I ran the benchmark

Sat Apr 27, 2013, 07:04 PM

Apr 2013

and here is just one of the suggestions:

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Unless you have some specific reason not to, you should give serious thought to disabling your router's provisioning of DNS services (which it is providing for all computers on your local network). After this is done, a fresh reboot of your computers will likely reveal the multiple DNS nameservers provided by your ISP. This is a superior configuration, without an under-powered router acting as a incompetent middleman and impeding all DNS access.

Note that if you can determine the IP addresses of your ISP-provided nameservers (which may be visible in your router's web configuration) you could manually add them to the nameservers being tested by this benchmark, while also leaving your router providing DNS. This would allow you to compare the performance when running through your router versus "going direct"

Can you tell me how to disable the router's provisioning of DNS services?

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Question about computer speed [View all] ohheckyeah Apr 2013 OP

my first off-hand guess would be a disk-caching issue. lastlib Apr 2013 #1

I'm not sure where to find that. n/t ohheckyeah Apr 2013 #3

In Win7, I'm not sure either...... lastlib Apr 2013 #5

Okay - ohheckyeah Apr 2013 #10

you had 8Gb installed RAM, right? I would try doubling your paging file size. lastlib Apr 2013 #20

Suggestion: Read through the thread titled "Is ISP help messing with me" Dan Ken Apr 2013 #2

I don't have anything much running in the background. ohheckyeah Apr 2013 #4

Good thing so far Dan Ken Apr 2013 #7

Thank you. n/t ohheckyeah Apr 2013 #8

I ran the benchmark ohheckyeah Apr 2013 #6

How to...Change TCP/IP ( including DNS) settings Dan Ken Apr 2013 #9

So, I should pick the two fastest DNS ohheckyeah Apr 2013 #11

YES, short answer, but re-read the Benchmark test page and Dan Ken Apr 2013 #13

I've been reading the Benchmark ohheckyeah Apr 2013 #15

Do the change ONLY ON YOUR COMPUTER!! Dan Ken Apr 2013 #17

Thank you.... ohheckyeah Apr 2013 #18

I live rural about 20 miles from the nearest ohheckyeah Apr 2013 #12

I'm in a major city suburb, and I have the same problem Dan Ken Apr 2013 #14

IF changing DNS settings doesn't make things better. Dan Ken Apr 2013 #16

Changing the DNS settings helped ohheckyeah Apr 2013 #19

So glad I was able to help, and that it worked. Dan Ken Apr 2013 #21

I've got two other computers to fix the DNS settings. ohheckyeah Apr 2013 #22

I don't think the page file size is really a problem (sorry for delay) Dan Ken Apr 2013 #23

No problem... ohheckyeah Apr 2013 #24

The problem could be the websites. ManiacJoe Apr 2013 #25

ManicJoe.... ohheckyeah Apr 2013 #26