When you change the DNS server that your switch, PC, or other Internet-associated uses, you’re changing the servers, typically doled out by your ISP that the PC or other devices are to change over hostnames to IP addresses. As such, you’re changing the administration supplier. One reason you may need to change the DNS servers you’re at present utilizing is whether you think there’s an issue with the ones you’re utilizing at this point. A simple approach to test for a DNS server issue is by writing a site’s IP address into the program. On the off chance that you can achieve the site with the IP address, yet not the name, then the DNS server is likely having issues. Another thing to change DNS server is if you need a fast performing service. Many people are irritated that their ISP kept DNS servers slow and it lead to a slower browsing experience.
A brief on DNS server for Windows 8
When you change the DNS server in Windows 8, you change which servers Windows 8 uses to interpret hostnames to IP locations.
Since DNS servers are infrequently the reason for specific sorts of Internet issues, changing DNS servers in Windows 8 can be a decent investigating step. Since most PCs and other devices unite with a nearby system by means of DHCP, there are likely as of now DNS server naturally arranged in Windows 8 for you. What you’ll be doing here is overriding these programmed DNS server with others of your choosing.
Note: If your Windows 8 PC unites with the Internet by means of a router at your home or business, and you need the DNS servers for all the other devices that interface with that router, you’re in an ideal situation changing settings on the router itself rather than on every device.
Your steps to change Windows 8 DNS server
1. Open the Control Panel.
2. Once in Control Panel, touch or click on Network and Internet.
3. In the Network and Internet window that is presently open, click or touch Network and Sharing Center.
4. Since the Network and Sharing Center window is open, click or touch the Change adapter settings connection, situated in the left edge.
5. From this new Network Connections screen, find the network connection that you need to change the DNS servers for.
6. At the connection’s Status window that’s now open, click on Properties.
7. Scroll down and click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) to choose it.
8. Click Properties
9.Click the Use the following DNS server addresses at the button of the properties window.
10. In the spaces, write the IP address for a Preferred DNS server and in Alternate DNS server.
11. Click the OK button.
12. Check that the new DNS server your Windows is using are working just as well as you wanted by browsing some of your favorite websites in your default browser. As the pages pop up, and do so as quickly as before, the new DNS servers you entered are working in a great manner.
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