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A fast DNS doesn't provide any better ping, only a faster name resolution.@Van2r While I'm not advanced in networking, I believe that a good DNS would improve gaming speed in terms of ping and latency. OpenDNS has the best results when I tested it against other DNS like Google DNS. The faster a DNS can resolve an address, the better your overall experience will be.
If the DNS is entered manually, Windows forces the rest to be entered manually as well. You can't swap the DNS to manual but keep "Obtain IP address automatically" as is...How to change DNS ?
If you want to set the DNS and you're running Windows 7 or Windows 8, click on the network connection icon and select Open network and sharing center of bounding box that appears. About Windows 8 you have to right click the network icon instead of left click to display the settings menu.
In the window that opens, click the name of the connection you are using and go to connection settings by clicking on the properties button.
Now, scroll through the list the connection uses the following items and select, by double clicking on it, the Internet Protocol version 4 (TCP/IPv4). In the window that opens, put the checkmark next to Use the following DNS server addresses, type in preferred DNS Server and alternate DNS Server addresses of the primary and secondary DNS server you want to use for your connection and click on the OK button twice to save the settings.
But you can?! I never had do set anything else... are you using DHCP?If the DNS is entered manually, Windows forces the rest to be entered manually as well. You can't swap the DNS to manual but keep "Obtain IP address automatically" as is...
I've taken control over it anyway... put personalised DNS entries in firewall rule, attached to the "dnscache / DNS Client" Windows Service, so net is active but not accessible till VPN loads up. F*^k Windows, I control everything... lolDHCP takes care of the automatic assignment of IP addresses to internal machines on a network, while the DNS is used to resolve the IP address of a host.
We clarify: one thing is the DNS address and one thing is the internal IP.
The DNS server is assigned by the supplier of connectivity and then sent from the router to the client (unless you manually set differently), while the IP is assigned by the DHCP server of your network that can be either a router or a server.
If what changes is the address of the DNS server obviously the router has received this change by the server connectivity provider and therefore reflects on client PCs this variation.