Ron Schenone

Does Using The Google DNS Service Speed Up Your Browsing Experience?

Posted by on Dec 7, 2009 | 4 Comments

Last week Google introduced its DNS service, which should speed up a user’s browsing experience. I decided to give the service a try and I must admit, my browser [Firefox], does seem faster. But what has your experience been? If you have tried the free Google DNS service, let us know what you think.

Comments welcome.

Setting up the Google DNS instructions

  • http://imvox.com David Fisher

    There’s a much better article (an actual article and not just a question) on Jon Radoff’s blog about Google DNS and Benchmarking:

    http://radoff.com/blog/2009/12/07/google-dns-benchmarking-and-rationale/

  • confused2gether

    I use OpenDNS over Google’s DNS strictly because you can have not only a very good DNS alternative to your ISP’s junky NAMES servers, but it also adds in content filtering for home and business networks at no costs to you or the company. Google DNS is a great solution and does help steer you away from ISP DNS servers. I have google DNS as my backup DNS server to OpenDNS right now. I ran some tests between Google DNS and OpenDNS and I couldnt really tell to much of a difference speed-wise between the two. Both services of course are faster than using your ISP’s DNS servers though. I haven’t done much research though on Google’s uptime promise (not sure if they promise X% of uptime) because I do know that OpenDNS does promise a 99% uptime and they do provide maps showing the locations and statuses of their servers.

  • tallJG

    I use Google DNS and I do notice a significant difference in speed. I think this service is great!

  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

    Hello David,
    I was looking for real world users, not benchmarking tests.

    confused2gether – I have heard good things about Open DN as well. Thanks for the info.

    talljg,
    Thanks for sharing your experience. This is exactly what I was looking for. A REAL opinion about Google DNS.

    Regards, Ron