How to Increase your internet speed with Namebench

NameBench is a program that searches for the fastest DNS in your area. After the program is finished searching and comparing between DNS it will give you the results including the fastest and nearest DNS in your area. After that all you have to do is edit your connection settings to use the fastest DNS available. NameBench is available for Windows and Mac systems, but most importantly it is Linux compatible.
Prepare your system

Install following package

sudo apt-get install python-tk

Now you need to download .tgz file from here

Now extract the file using the following command

tar xzvf namebench-1.1.tgz

Now you have namebench-1.1 directory.If you double click on this you have two options if you want to run immediately you can do by double clicking on namebench.py file.

If you want to install permanently using the following command

sudo python setup.py install

Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen here click on Start Benchmark

The results are compared to Google’s DNS and the system will compare against your current DNS settings. The fastest DNS will be listed at the top.

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