Accelerating Browsing Using OpenDNS
Browsing access speed is determined by many things such as the distance between the computer that we use with a computer server where the website is in, the extent of the pages that must be downloaded to the browser, the quality control that is in use, the quality of your Internet Service Provider (ISP) and computer processing speeds in our own. by increasing one of the main factors on the speed of browsing we will get better.
This time we will discusses the factors that control the quality of use. DNS or Domain Name System is a naming system on the internet for all connected components such as computers, Internet services and other network components. This system allows us to use the domain name to access a server on the internet. Surely it would be more difficult for us to remember series of numbers as the address of the website.
Example when you type the "detik.com" then your computer asks the DNS server on the IP address of the "detik.com". Computers need to know the IP address because the number is more easily understood by computer systems that use the data bits. After getting the IP address of the DNS Server computer then you will understand with certainty the destination computer addresses so they can access it. So the user's DNS system to bridge the Internet with a computer network that uses language that is different from human language.
If you already know the IP address of the website you want to open, then you can type the IP directly in the location / URL of your browser. Here we do not need to contact the DNS server to ask the IP address of the website because we already have it. Examples for "detik.com" IP address "203.190.241.43".
The quality of the DNS Server greatly affect your browsing speed. If the DNS server you use slow in processing your requests or farther away from your computer then it can certainly slow down your browsing speed. By default we use the control that comes from your Internet Service Provider (ISP) we like StarOne, Telkom flash, etc. telkomnet.
But often the DNS server provided by our ISP are less qualified so many consumers who complained about the slow access to browse to a website. For that we have tips to speed up browsing using OpenDNS. OpenDNS is a free DNS server that can be used by all Internet users in the world.
The advantages of OpenDNS is as follows:
- Its servers located in a strategic location on the Internet
- Having a domain name cache size is very large. In the world of computers system cache affect the speed of the process, an example of cache memory and cache web page
- The query process of domain name to an IP address very quickly that this speeds up the process of finding the IP address
- Other facilities associated with network security such as filters against phishing, malware or virus sites blocks
- Correction domain name, for example when you type wikipedia.og then OpenDNS will redirect to the correct address of wikipedia.org
If you want to know more about OpenDNS, you can read an article about OpenDNS at wikipedia or visit OpenDNS .
In the OpenDNS website we can find information about OpenDNS installation on our computer. You can choose the guide that matches your operating system your computer here .
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