xtraflow.blogg.se

• #Change settings on mac for opening applications downloaded from the internet free#

#Change settings on mac for opening applications downloaded from the internet free#

Whether the most popular services are the fastest, what DNS service suits you best and how we can speed up downloading on your Mac – we will find out now.įirst we'll need a small free utility – NameBench. However in the past few years we have got powerful alternative services such as OpenDNS and Google DNS that provide your with reliable services of comparable – if not higher – speed. Users usually accept default settings of their Internet provider, and it is fine, cause their DNS servers are quite fast.

So the speed with which requested web pages open partially depends on the speed of your DNS service. Once the corresponding IP address is found, your request is transferred to it for further processing. Say, when you type in your browser address field, a DNS server looks for it in a special database.

DNS is a service that translates a website address from the human language into the language of computers.

Perhaps I should first explain what Domain Name System (DNS) actually is.