Comments on: Increase your internet speed with Namebench

By: zubeen

zubeen — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:14:41 +0000

it increased my speed substantially….however i guess i’ve to use it repeatedly

By: John

John — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:15:25 +0000

In order to increase internet speed you have to use an internet accelerator like Internet Cyclone.

By: rEnr3n

rEnr3n — Fri, 21 May 2010 02:24:53 +0000

What is the significant difference between running namebench.py and installing it?

By: ButterflyOfFire

ButterflyOfFire — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:44:48 +0000

Namebench 1.2 is out
http://namebench.googlecode.com/files/namebench-1.2-source.tgz

By: Junaid Munawar

Junaid Munawar — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:32:15 +0000

Here you go guys:

? Log on as Administrator
? Start – run – and type (gpedit.msc)
? Expand “Local Computer Policy
? Expand “ Administrative Template
? Expand “Network Branch”
? Highlight “QoS Packet Scheduler
? On Right Hand double click “limit reservable bandwidth
? On setting tab check “Enable”
? Change “Bandwidth limit %” to 0

You are done. This will increase your computer’s internet speed for about 20%

Regards,
Junaid Munawar

By: ATOzTOA

ATOzTOA — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:01:16 +0000

It gave me Google Public DNS 8.8.8.8

By: leandro666m

leandro666m — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:06:02 +0000

can i use it with a 3G internet connection? from argentine

By: Floyd

Floyd — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:42:36 +0000

Yes, you can change the DNS setings by editing the /etc/resolv.conf file but if you are using DHCP those settings will be replaced by DHCP which automatically enters the settings from your router. So you need to go to the setup pages for your router and enter the DNS settings there also. And you can only have a maximum of three DNS servers in resolv.conf. Another reason to use a static IP.

You can also edit your dhclient.conf file to stop it from requesting DNS from the server.

See:
man resolv.conf
man dhclient.conf

By: MAroco

MAroco — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:13:40 +0000

Thanks for that info, didn’t know about namebench. Gave me a quite noticeable speedboost. May be worth doing namebenches on different days though, since the results seem to vary quite a bit. Would also recommend to everbody to have a closer look at the output, especially the min and max times. Namebench seems to define the “fastest” server as the one with the best Avg. The “felt” speed may be faster with a server with a good average and a low Max-value though. In my case UltraDNS had an Average around 80 but max near 2000., so another server with Avg round 100 but max around 900 “felt” faster.
8.8.8.8. and 8.8.4.4. is Google - they ARE fast but I think they don’t need to know *everything* about me

By: Billy everyteen

Billy everyteen — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:43:11 +0000

Speed is just one factor of DNS-for me the fact that OpenDNS allow me to configure to a extent the settings of dns is a major positive for me. Plus OpenDNS has antiphishing and antibotnet built into the free version.

Now if only the antimalware blocking was incorporated into the free version too…

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:03:46 +0000

Or you can just use 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

By: kernel_script

kernel_script — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:54:55 +0000

@amine
@Brad

I never tested it, I don’t know if that works, but: Network Manager (it is Ubuntu default Network Manager [the network icon on the right upper corner of the screen]) > Your Internet Type > IPV4 > DNS Servers

But what I usualy do is (I find it really really simple and easy):

gksu nautilus /etc/ppp/resolv.conf

By: admin

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:47:10 +0000

You can change you DNS server settings using the following commands from your terminal

gksudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf

Add the fast DNS servers identified by namebench

nameserver x.x.x.x
nameserver x.x.x.x

x.x.x.x - DNS server ip address

Save and exit the file

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:43:45 +0000

Since this is a site for Ubuntu users, though, it would be nice to include specific instructions on how to change those Internet settings in Ubuntu.

By: amine

amine — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:40:00 +0000

To kernel_script

once again I say:

how,please,can I configure my internet settings on ubuntu?
we need some explanation or guide to show us how.

By: kernel_script

kernel_script — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:27:12 +0000

@amine
Yes he did: “After that all you have to do is edit your connection settings to use the fastest DNS available.”

By saying “Increase your internet speed with Namebench” he means that THROUGH the use of Namebench, you can pick up a faster DNS and use it, changing your Internet settings to the new and faster DNS = Faster Internet experience.

By: Mayoral

Mayoral — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:57:09 +0000

Tnks 4 the info, doing testing… if something has wrong or good, i’ll post it.

By: amine

amine — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:05:27 +0000

thanks for the valuable piece of information…but you seem to have left us in the midst of the road.you didn’t tell us how to configure our internet speed after getting the Namebench results!

many thanks