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NameBench helps you identify the fastest DNS server in your region and improves internet browsing speed.
HOW TO USE NAMEBENCH
The process is quite easy. When you are on the startup screen above you have to select a couple of options, which isn’t really necessary. The default options are good enough to start the test from the word go. However, if you would like to mix it up. here are few things which can be changed and what they mean.
1) Nameservers: the current DNS Servers that you are using are listed here – No need to change this.
2) Include global DNS Providers: This will include well-known DNS providers with global coverage into your benchmark – This helps test against present and possibly new DNS Servers.
3) Include best available regional DNS services: Selecting this will include the fastest regional DNS servers in your test. This works by quickly testing the health of over 1,000 DNS servers around the world, and selecting only the fastest servers that provide correct responses.
4) Benchmark Data Source:(Query Data Source) NameBench works by requesting website addresses from each DNS server. This dialog allows you to select where this list of host names are generated from. The most accurate data source is your browser history, though for smaller histories, the benchmark may bias toward your currently configured primary DNS server. This list contains each browser that NameBench was able to find a history for, along with how many records it found in the history file (in parenthesis) as shown in the image below.
(Query data source in up to date version)
5) BenchMark Data Selection: Now known as Health Check Performance has only two options, Fast and Slow
6) Number of tests:(Queries) This option selects how many requests should be tested for each DNS server. The more tests, the more the results should reflect real-world usage. By default we send 125 requests for each name server.
7) Number of Runs: How many times the test is run. By default, we only run the test once.. Since each run repeats the same list of requests, each subsequent run should serve cached data. Running the test more than once can be useful to measure the performance difference between non-cached requests and cached requests.
After NameBench runs the test it displays detailed results for the DNS Servers it tested in a new window in your default browser.
It also recommends the best combination of DNS servers for your computer for a faster browsing experience.
The results of the tested DNS servers, including your present server are listed.
the performance of the various DNS servers are displayed in a graph to help you get an idea of the response time for your requests to each server.
Smaller the time for response-faster the browsing speed.
In my case my default DNS server was the fastest so no need to change but i can add the next fastest DNS server to my network settings also.
Download NAMEBENCH HERE
If you get a result which shows a dns server better than your current and dont know how to change let us know what OS you are using so we can help.
HOW TO USE NAMEBENCH
The process is quite easy. When you are on the startup screen above you have to select a couple of options, which isn’t really necessary. The default options are good enough to start the test from the word go. However, if you would like to mix it up. here are few things which can be changed and what they mean.
1) Nameservers: the current DNS Servers that you are using are listed here – No need to change this.
2) Include global DNS Providers: This will include well-known DNS providers with global coverage into your benchmark – This helps test against present and possibly new DNS Servers.
3) Include best available regional DNS services: Selecting this will include the fastest regional DNS servers in your test. This works by quickly testing the health of over 1,000 DNS servers around the world, and selecting only the fastest servers that provide correct responses.
4) Benchmark Data Source:(Query Data Source) NameBench works by requesting website addresses from each DNS server. This dialog allows you to select where this list of host names are generated from. The most accurate data source is your browser history, though for smaller histories, the benchmark may bias toward your currently configured primary DNS server. This list contains each browser that NameBench was able to find a history for, along with how many records it found in the history file (in parenthesis) as shown in the image below.
(Query data source in up to date version)
5) BenchMark Data Selection: Now known as Health Check Performance has only two options, Fast and Slow
6) Number of tests:(Queries) This option selects how many requests should be tested for each DNS server. The more tests, the more the results should reflect real-world usage. By default we send 125 requests for each name server.
7) Number of Runs: How many times the test is run. By default, we only run the test once.. Since each run repeats the same list of requests, each subsequent run should serve cached data. Running the test more than once can be useful to measure the performance difference between non-cached requests and cached requests.
After NameBench runs the test it displays detailed results for the DNS Servers it tested in a new window in your default browser.
It also recommends the best combination of DNS servers for your computer for a faster browsing experience.
The results of the tested DNS servers, including your present server are listed.
the performance of the various DNS servers are displayed in a graph to help you get an idea of the response time for your requests to each server.
Smaller the time for response-faster the browsing speed.
In my case my default DNS server was the fastest so no need to change but i can add the next fastest DNS server to my network settings also.
Download NAMEBENCH HERE
If you get a result which shows a dns server better than your current and dont know how to change let us know what OS you are using so we can help.