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How To: Change DNS (and make web surfing faster)

How To: Change DNS (and make web surfing faster) The Internet is so big now, and the average person has more bandwidth at home then existed in the entire world in 1980, that the biggest slow down in web surfing has become the initial DNS or Domain Name Service look up. DNS is the service [...]

Classic Article: Making Windows Faster

Only posting here for posterity. This article was originally written Jan 1st, 2001   So you just bought that brand new AMD 1.3 gigahertz computer with all the bells and whistles. Of course after a month or two it’s all the sudden running as slow as your old computer. Luckily there are several things you [...]

How To: Speed up Web Surfing

We would all like to surf the Internet a little faster. Unluckily Web Browsers, Network speed, and computer speed all conspire to make surfing the web as slow as possible. Luckily each browser has a couple of tweaks that can be used to make things go faster. Firefox Firefox actually has the most options to [...]