How to increase internet access speed by increasing DNS cache.

Internet browsing is such an exciting and easy experience now a days that we have almost forgotten the amount of work that goes behind the scene to make this all happen. We only feel bad if we can't find something easily or have to wait for a long time (I have heard many people saying WWW stands for world wide wait not too long ago!!!) Well with changes in technology and falling prices we have far better hardware and software to do this job but fruits of fine tuning have always been great and would continue to remain so. One of the things that should happen before Internet connection would go through is DNS resolution.DNS stands for Domain Name Service. Even though XP does a fine job of handling DNS resolution, you may still gain by increase the DNS Cache size. To do this you would have to add following entries in registry. Do remember that any mistakes in your system's registry may render your system useless or may make it to stop running or crash. So do this only if you are confident and courageous like me.

Step 1: Save what is written below in file say "dnstuning.reg"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters]
"CacheHashTableBucketSize"=dword:00000001
"CacheHashTableSize"=dword:00000180
"MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000fa00
"MaxSOACacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000012d

Step 2: Go to Start > Run and type regedit.

Step 3: Go to File > Import option from top menu and import the dnstuning.reg file by using the browsing option and selecting it from where you had saved it.

This should increase your DNS cache size and allow you slightly enhanced speeds while accessing the internet.