Google's New DNS servers and How To Use It

Google had recently launched their own public DNS servers which would be FREE to use for the world . They promise a much faster and a much more secure service . Being google i'm sure not quality is compromised and you could expect the best service from them .
Although google would be facing stiff competition from OpenDNS which has been the favourite so far as they did provide a much more faster and reliable service , now with google entering into this market it would be interesting to see who provides a better service.
I had switched a few PCS to Google's DNS servers a few days back and i must say although pings show that opendns and google are almost the same in terms of response time ( very few milli second difference ) but when you actually use google's DNS Servers to start opening pages you will notice that google's DNS service to be a little more faster to load pages , this is probably because their DNS service is new and not yet known and used by many people . It would probably slow down a little more after a while.
At this point of time it is not a bad idea to switch to Google DNS servers and give it a shot . For those who know how to do it , Google's DNS servers are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 . Here is a small guide for windows users :

Step 1 : Go to the Control Panel

Step 2 : Click on Network and Internet

Step 3 : Click on View Network Status and Tasks

Step 4 : Click on Change Adapter Settings


Step 5 : Right click on Local Area Connection ( if wireless , right click on Wireless Connection) and click on Properties

Step 6: Click on Internet Protocol Version 4 and click on Properties

Step 7 : Select Use The FOllowing DNS server Addresses and type in 8.8.8.8 as preferred and 8.8.4.4 as alternate DNS servers

Step 8 : Thats it , Click on OK and close all windows

Your pc would now be using Google's DNS Servers for web browsing.

FOR LINUX USERS - CLICK HERE for a tutorial , just replace 208.67.222.222 with 8.8.8.8 and 208.67.220.220 with 8.8.4.4