For traders trading on US stock exchange (NYSE,NASDAQ,AMEX) and on CME for example, from Russia or the CIS countries there is a frequent problem with speed to another continent not only to sites, but also to the trading servers of brokers. Providers often set the best route in their country, but not to other countries.
There is 2 solution option:
1)Call the provider and ask to change the route from you to the broker using faster servers, but this is unlikely for home users. On the corporate network, they do it, but not with great pleasure.
A simpler method will be discussed further. :
First of all, it is necessary to say literally a few words about, what is DNS and what effect does it have on your connection speed. In very simple words, is a system for translating the site address from human language into the language of computers. I.e, when you type www.example.ru in the address bar of your browser, then it is first sent to a dedicated server, which, using a special database, finds the address of the corresponding computer and transmits the request to it. From here it becomes clear, how important is the speed of this service to the speed of opening pages in your browser.
Usually, users in the connection settings indicate that data, provided by their provider. And that's exactly right, because the provider's DNS service is fast enough. but, quite powerful alternative services have appeared in recent years, which provide at least, and sometimes faster services. First of all, such services as And Google DNS. Is this really the case?, which DNS service is the fastest for you, you will learn from this article.
A small free utility will help us in solving this problem. (Windows, Mac, Linux). It can not only test your current connection, but also choose the fastest DNS server for your location. To do this, she makes a series of tests., the results of which may surprise you a little.
After downloading and running the program (no installation required) a window will appear in front of you, containing a number of options. By default, all settings are already set and you do not need to touch anything. Check only, so that your country and the browser used for surfing are correctly defined. You only need to press the Start Benchmark и запастись терпением. The program will perform a series of tests fully automatically and display the result in the form of a web page.
Опа! Turns out my current DNS service is almost half as slow, than the corresponding service from Google. Here we see all the necessary data for the correct connection setup.. Go to the properties of the network connection, configure the TCP / IPv4 protocol as needed and try to feel the difference.
After changing DNS settings, you can check your network speed. Quite possible, that the settings you made will help you browse the web much faster, than before. Unsubscribe about your feelings in the comments, it is interesting to us.
(Windows, Mac, Linux)
There are actually several options, but these are the simplest
