speed up internet

[Bulldoque]

Here my problem:
I read about a posibility to speed up internet by entering the IP adress of certain pages into a file in order to speed up DNS search by XP. But now - to reedit the values - I cannot find them. The problem ? If the IP adress has changed XP cannot find the pages anymore These files (i guess 2) must be somewhere in the windows directory and are very small.

Thank you in advance

 

[Qumahlin]

just look for the file calld hosts

 

[Bulldoque]

yeah thank you very much...

 

[Zedric]

Does anyone know how much this would speed up things? I'm guessing it's pretty marginal. On a modem connection there'd probably be no difference. On faster connections (2Mbit+) there could be a noticable difference in time between hitting enter (after typing a URL) and the start of the page loading.

 

[Qumahlin]

Eh I find it's marginal either way, only time I find it makes a difference is if your DNS from your provider sucks.

 

[Sfumato]

Get FASTNET 99

It will scan bookmarks, history, and current hosts file. You can then verify them, it will delete dups, and delete bad address if you want.


This DOES improve DNS lookup dramatically. Try it you will see.

Plus it gives you a lot of info about connection, I have been using it for years.

ITS FREE

here

http://www.geocities.com/gcriaco/


New features
Email checker
Port scanner
Interfaces Informations function
IP Address Informations function
Ping, Traceroute and WhoIs functions available also for URLs not contained in the Hosts file
Graphic added to the Ping function
Progress bar added to the Ping function
Automatic Popup windows closing: Geocities Popup boxes managed
New tray icon showing network traffic (bytes sent and received)
Added option "AutoSave the Hosts file on exit"
Added option "Add FastNet99 to MSIE's Tools"
Added option "Tray Icon showing Network traffic"
Report function shows Log files related to closed popup windows and deleted e-mails
New Splash screen
NetLauncher: drag & drop capabilities added to the applications list
Lower process priority (no more momentarily freeze during some activities)
Up/Down Arrow icons showing sort order added to avery list view column headers
HostsMerge program embedded in FastNet99 (Import function)
Numerous other minor improvements and bug fixes