How To Fix Internet Response Problems and DNS Server Errors
Have you come across situations when you cant browse fastly around webpages and every now and then your browser returns an error page? This error happens because your default DNS servers cant render the page you are requesting.
All websites we browse, for eg www.google.com are stored as IP addresses in the DNS database and how fast this name request can be turned to IP address by your DNS servers determines your internet browsing speed.
This process of turning names to IP are called as resolving (laymans terms)
If your browsing turns extremely annoying with half loaded webpages, never ever responding loading bars and specific site loading issues, then you are a victim of DNS error.
This involves editing your network connection (lan connection) protocol and wifi connection protocol in case of wifi users.
Find your network adapter (in case of wired connections it should be 'LOCAL AREA CONNECTION' or 'ETHERNET' and in case of wireless connections it should be 'WIRELESS NETWORK ADAPTER'
Right click the adapter and click 'properties'
select TCP/IP (v4) and click properties
You can see a window as below.
What is a DNS server and what is meant by resolving?
All websites we browse, for eg www.google.com are stored as IP addresses in the DNS database and how fast this name request can be turned to IP address by your DNS servers determines your internet browsing speed.
This process of turning names to IP are called as resolving (laymans terms)
How to spot and fix DNS errors?
If your browsing turns extremely annoying with half loaded webpages, never ever responding loading bars and specific site loading issues, then you are a victim of DNS error.
There are 2 fixes. Let me explain easy method here
This involves editing your network connection (lan connection) protocol and wifi connection protocol in case of wifi users.
- Goto control panel.
- Open 'Network and sharing center' .
- On left side top, click on 'adapter settings'. You can see such a window
- Change the button selection to Use the following ip address and use the following DNS address
- Enter the following in it
- Ip address:192.168.1.3 (last value can be any value 2-255)
Subnet mask:just click on this section, you can see it appearing automatically
Default gateway-192.168.1.1
Primary DNS and secondary DNS
You can choose from any pair below
Open DNS
Primary 208.67.222.222
secondary 208.67.220.220
Google DNS
primary:8.8.4.4
secondary 8.8.8.8 - Click on OK and you are done. Change DNS agin if you are facing the problem in future.
This is the easiest way to change DNS servers. The Hard method would be updated below
