- Last time, I said, what if I told you that you can double,
triple, or even quadruple your internet speed with one easy trick? The answer was to just spend more money on extra internet connections, so I can understand your hesitation about clicking this video. Thank you for giving me another chance, because guess what? - [Narrator] It's redemption time. - This new tip that
works on PC, Mac Linux, and even your phone, will
make your internet anywhere from a little bit to a
metric butt-ton faster, in less than a minute, for free. There's a new DNS in town, baby. (upbeat music) Private internet access is the
VPN service that encrypts all of your internet traffic and
uses a safe, protected IP. It's got tons of other useful features and you can check it
out at the link below. So today's tip is actually nothing new, using a faster or more reliable
DNS service than the one that you're good-for-nothing
ISP assigns to you, is something people have
been doing for years. The new development is that Cloudflare, best known for their
anti-DDoS protection service, has released a competitor to
major public DNS providers like Google and Open DNS. They're calling it the internet's fastest privacy
first consumer DNS service, which is kind of a lot of qualifiers. But, according to third-party
DNS analytics site, DNSperf, 1.1.1.1 is either the fastest or nearly the fastest
DNS across all regions. So let's show you guys
how to switch to it. Cloudflare actually has
step-by-step instructions for all of your devices,
right on their website, and we're gonna have that linked below. But for your convenience, we've
also included screen capture for the most popular platforms. They're all basically
a variation of digging into your network settings
and reconfiguring your DNS from auto to 1.1.1.1, with 1.0.0.1 as a backup. Advanced users with many
devices in their homes may want to configure their router to manually use Cloudflare's DNS as well, which will save them the
hassle of doing this rigmarole on each device individually. And that was it. But we wouldn't blame
you guys for not wanting to switch to some
new-fangled, DNS-resolver before we've explained what that is and proven that it actually matters, which is why this video is not over yet. So then what does a DNS do? Well, humans remember and use domain names like google.com or linustechtips.com., but these pages actually
live at an IP address, like 104.27.140.189, or with IPV6, it's even
harder to remember. Meaning that every time
you type in a domain name, the translation to that page's IP address has to be looked up, but
this is not as simple as flipping through a virtual Rolodex. These records are decentralized
and stored on the servers of multiple different
registrars all over the world, which is why you need a service to look up correct IP addresses
after you press enter. And since you can't start loading a page until you know where it is, using a slow, overloaded
or unreliable DNS server can noticeably slow down
virtually everything that you do online. So to find out how much
faster Cloudflare's option is, we used GRCs free DNS benchmarking tool, and the results are a little
mixed, but also very promising. So the latency on retrieving cached pages, things that we have already searched for, was actually lower with
our local DNS servers, which makes sense because they
are physically closer to us. But when it came to uncashed
names and .com look-ups, Cloudflare servers came out ahead, especially when our primary
DNS name server failed since our secondary name
server turned out to be dead, which slows things down, and our tertiary and
quaternary name servers are Google's public DNS,
which aren't as fast. But putting the numbers
aside 1.1., you know what, let's just call it 1., it felt faster. New tabs opened instantaneously and videos on YouTube loaded more
snappily than we were used to, though it should be noted
that this trick won't affect the video quality that
you can play back at, that still depends on the bandwidth that your connection is rated for. So then, how's Cloudflare doing this? Well, many factors affect
the speed of a DNS query, but the biggest one is whether the server can retrieve the answer from a cache. If the domain IP address
pair is already stored in your browser, operating
system, or DNS server, then your DNS resolver
doesn't have to balance between multiple routes and
registrars around the world in order to solve the query. So with 1., Cloudflare pre-fills
their distributed cache out of band with popular addresses that you are likely to query. And they're also working
to build out their network, with the eventual goal
of having every user within 10 milliseconds of at
least one of their locations. In March alone, they
enabled 31 new data centers all over the world, and they
use fancy query techniques like aggressive, negative caching to decrease the load on their system. So, okay, good for them,
but what if 1. isn't faster than what you're already using? Is there any point switching to it? Believe it or not, yes, because there are privacy
advantages as well. Even if you're visiting an HTTPS website, one that supports encrypted data transfer, the fact that you searched for
that site in the first place is still known by your DNS resolver. This means that by default, your ISP, your mobile network provider
and every wifi network you've ever connected to, have
a comprehensive list of every site you visited
while you're using them, ugh. While 1. does actually
need to log your IP address to prevent abuse and to debug issues, Cloudflare has committed with
third-party auditing firm, KPMG on retainer, to
wiping all of their logs within 24 hours and never writing
your IP address to a disc. So they actually won't know
who searched for what sites. They use query minimization to ensure that they only revealed
the specific data necessary to complete the query, and they support up and
coming privacy standards, like DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS. And while you might think that
privacy isn't that important, consider that in 2014, the
government of Turkey ordered the country's ISPs to sensor Twitter by blocking DNS requests after a government corruption
scandal leaked online. So in response, protestors
actually spray painted the IP of Google's DNS
resolver all over Istanbul to help their fellow
Turks get back online. So, this video, sorry,
it was kind of heavy, but thank you for making it this far. In summary, using 1.
helps you browse faster, which is great, but also makes the internet
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I feel like this video should have been a tech quicky one.
For me, the bigger gain is in the privacy, since 1.1.1.1 is promising to delete user data.
I think people forget that LTT HAS to market itself to the casual viewer and part of that is clickbaitish titles, and it's not like it was dishonest, I went from 48down to 50 so it was a little something I guess plus more privacy
I've been using it on both linux and windows. I've noticed less lag with things like page loading and search results.
how do i confirm that im using that 1.1?
it says my dns is 192.168.1.1
Nice to know about cloudflare dns. However using the benchmark, my ISP is faster!
If they aren't storing user data, and its free. How is this paid for? Why are they doing it? If I understood the motivations/funding better, I would trust it.
If they aren't storing user data, and its free. How is this paid for? Why are they doing it? If I understood the motivations/funding better, I would trust it.