matt-helps

One of the things you can do to speed up browsing and general internet activity is to create a local DNS cache. A DNS is a Domain Name Server and its purpose is to convert domain names to IP addresses. Every time you type in a domain name your computer has to ask [...]

Having moved house I have just been connected to broadband.  The connection is a decent enough 4mbps but for some reason, especially in the evening, when I went to a website when I was surfing the browser would spend a few seconds “looking up” the domain that I wanted to go to (like www.matt-helps.com) before [...]