The 163rd most popular network tool on Windows
… More EditAre you a power-user with 5 minutes to spare? Do you want a faster internet experience?
Try out namebench. It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way. This project began as a 20% project at Google.
namebench runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and UNIX, and is available with a graphical user interface as well as a command-line interface.
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Did you create this app?| Website: | code.google.com/p/name... |
| Developer: | Thomas Stromberg |
| License: | Open source |
| Version: | 1.3.1 |
| Rating: | Features: Interface: Performance: Price/value: Overall: |
| Usage: | 4 days, 20 hours, 54 minutes and 34 seconds |
| Usage since: | 15 October 2009 |
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very useful piece of software. to any one complaining about the test duration, just let work in the background. really you don't want to skip this one, worth trying.
Huh... My default is my best. (:
full test takes long time.
random results.
in deed
Awesome DNS bench marker.
nice and perfect :D but its so slow :-s!
I seem to get different results every time I use it !! and sometimes with huge percentage improvements.
Great app to find the best DNS to use. Will speed up your browsing etc so is really worth using.
5 fastest DNS for me all hijacked google and Piratebay. Tian dynasty rocks!
heh. for Mac? Doan got one...
Great tool, I got some interesting results.
Awesome DNS Benchmarker though the process may of been sluggish it got me both the two fastest DNS servers and the closest one. It improved my DNS speeds (which was Google DNS at the time) by 31%! Very smart app. Good work! :)
A bit slow to process, but it was well worth the wait. It suggested I switch from Google Public DNS to another provider, and it's quite a bit quicker!
The results are the same as shown by DNS Benchmark so I think it works OK.