Comments on: Safely switch to Google Public DNS for a faster internet experience

By: Mark S.

Mark S. — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:06:19 +0000

Thank you so much for this great utility Mr.Ganesh )

By: David Dornian

David Dornian — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:19:58 +0000

Excellent. I have been fighting to get access to a couple of West European websites from my ISP here in Canada for months now. Their tech help keeps denying there is a problem. This just fixed it. Now I can register my ski team for their races. Many thanks.

By: Shekhar Sahu

Shekhar Sahu — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:34:18 +0000

This will definitely Help, thanks.

By: Pras

Pras — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:08:55 +0000

@Oscar: Ah! x64 is the culprit! I haven’t tested my app on a 64-bit machine, and chances are, that is causing you trouble!

By: Oscar

Oscar — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:52:50 +0000

I was able to make the change manually in TCP/IP v6 settings and when I check the View button in DNS Helper the change I made is showed, but I’m unable to perform the change from the program interface. Is it fully compatible with Windows 7 x64?

By: Pras

Pras — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:27:51 +0000

I’m stumped. Since it remains the same even after you’ve changed it yourself manually, I think there is something wrong with your network configuration. DNS Helper cannot solve this issue.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:19:50 +0000

No way… my DNS remains unchangeable. I even changed the TCP/IP v4 settings for obtain the DNS server address manually (it was set to automatically) with no results: after DNS Helper change confirmation, it remains the same (checked via DNS Helper view button and TCP/IP v4 properties).

By: Pras

Pras — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:30:27 +0000

@abu aufa: Joe Batista is right. Ping tests are inaccurate. @Oscar: Check out the first screenshot. You can verify it in Networks -> Adapter Settings -> LAN Properties -> TCPv4 Settings.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:53:51 +0000

Thanks Pras, I downloaded DNS Helper, as you advised to me, and it shows the succesful change confirmation message, but if I run Google DNS Helper my first DNS is showed. I don’t know how to check out if the change was really succesful. I’m runing Windows 7 x64 .

By: Joe Baptista

Joe Baptista — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:18:33 +0000

@abu aufa: It looks to me like you did a ping test. The results of this test don’t determine the speed of the DNS your using. Although the ping response times do affect DNS speeds to some extent they are not an accurate way of testing DNS.

You should try namebench which is a much better test of DNS speeds – check it out at http://bit.ly/64WyVs