A Faster Internet for Your Smartphones

Most of us spend a significant portion of our time on our phones. So when the Internet connection slows or stalls, it can interrupt our lives to a maddening degree. We complain about the network, shut down apps, and double-check our bars to troubleshoot the problem. But a Northwestern research team recently found that an unexpected culprit lurking in the background might be what’s to blame.

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DNS performansınızı ölçün, optimize edin!

Bir veri paketinin internet üzerinden size ulaşması, onun belirli bir rotayı takip etmesini gerektirir. İnternet bağlantınızın performansını, bu rotaların optimizasyonu ile artırmanız mümkün olabilir. Bunun yanında, sadece DNS ayarlarınızda değişiklik yaparak bile internette gezinti hızınızı bir miktar artırmanız mümkün. 

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INTERNET How to Optimize Your DNS for Faster Internet

“The Internet is just a series of tubes” as one man so wisely stated. Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as that. There’s a complex architecture that supports the Internet, and data packets need to travel some interesting routes in order to reach you. If you can optimize the paths that your data takes, you can boost your Internet speed.

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Namehelp: improve public DNS web performance

Public DNS services have been around for several years, but they took really off in 2009 when companies such as Google started to enter the market. The Google Public DNS service is but one of the many services that Internet users can switch to if they suspect that the DNS service offered by their Internet Service Provider is lacking in one regard or the other.

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Namehelp – Vos DNS fast and furious

Namehelp est un logiciel qui tourne sous Windows, Mac et Linux et qui permet d’après ses concepteurs, d’optimiser jusqu’à 40% la résolution DNS. Pour cela, ils partent du principe qu’avec un serveur DNS, la résolution de noms de domaines relatifs à des CDN n’est pas toujours efficace. En effet, un DNS peut vous envoyer vers une IP de CDN qui n’est pas forcement le plus proche de vous. Ce n’est donc pas totalement optimisé.

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Công cụ tăng tốc DNS, cải thiện 40% tốc độ duyệt web

Việc tăng cường bảo mật và tính riêng tư trên các dịch vụ DNS công cộng như Google Public DNS (DNS khá quen thuộc với người dùng Việt Nam 8.8.8.8), OpenDNS sẽ ảnh hưởng đến hiệu suất truy cập web. Công cụ “namehelp”của nhóm nghiên cứu sẽ giúp khắc phục điểm yếu này, cải thiện tốc độ truy cập web lên 40% thông qua tối ưu hóa các thiết lập trên máy tính người dùng, hỗ trợ tương tác giữa các dịch vụ DNS công cộng với các mạng truyền tải nội dung. Bạn sẽ nhận được nội dung từ nguồn cung cấp gần nhất.

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Study Reveals Impact of Public DNS Services; Researchers Develop Tool to Help

A new study by Northwestern University researchers has revealed that public DNS services could actually slow down users’ web-surfing experience. As a result, researchers have developed a solution to help avoid such an impact: a tool called namehelp that could speed web performance by 40 percent.

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Using Virtual Worlds to ‘soft Control’ People’s Movements in the Real One

Northwestern University researchers have found they can influence smartphone users’ movements by creating mobile games that have incentives designed to steer people toward specific locations. “We can rely on good luck to get the data that we need, or we can ‘soft control’ users with gaming or social network incentives to drive them where we want them,” says Northwestern professor Fabian Bustamante.

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Who pays for your P2P habit? ISPs or you?

Who’s paying for peer-to-peer traffic across the internet? It’s not the largest ISPs, which can actually profit from such traffic, but smaller regional internet providers and those who operate campus or corporate networks, according to a new paper out that studies how P2P applications affect ISPs. The paper claims to look at the whole ecosystem, across network boundaries and geographical borders to detail the effect of the entire system of files.

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