Speed up web browsing 200% ?

[PcTek9]

I don't say a lot, but when I do it seems a great deal of people seem to listen. I don't know if it's because of being on here so long, or because of threads like the world's biggest list of antivirus software, or the thread containing the list of bootable cd iso's that help technicians. Of course like all of you I sometimes get some rude replies, or people just trying to take a nasty tone because they enjoy jerking people around so they can feel better about themselves. So a few things I did that really sped up the network? #1) i changed the dns servers to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 which is cloudflares new dns. This made my network so fast that pages load faster than I have ever seen before. It's impressive at least to me. Give it a try. If you like that one, then try these 2 small tips. Friendlyarms.com is selling tiny 2" cube quad core computers for $29.99. They got wifi, ethernet, lcd display. It's a great buy for me. I bought one and put on this free open source software called pi-hole, and pi-hole also sped up the network by blocking over 2 million advertising domains and other associated crap. It uses dnsmasq. It's like my own internal dns server. It helped speed up the network b/c of instead of fetching photos and video of some advertising talking, it just fetches nothing, and since it is at the dns level the page doesnt know it's missing and goes on like normal. These tips work great if your isp doesnt mandate their own dns. Good luck.

 

[cyabro]

Website correction: friendlyarm.com
No s

 

[GTP]

There's already been a discussion on using 1.1.1.1 and 9.9.9.9.
Iv'e tried both, and they make very little - if any - any difference to "network speed" or how fast web pages load.

A "2" Quad core computer for XXXX" Wow, I couldn't start to imagine the problems with that one!

As for pi-Hole, yeah it has it's place but needs extra hardware. But with browsers now coming with built in ad blockers - and extensions like uBlock Origin and Adguard - it's sort of overkill.

Personally, I prefer to use custom hosts files to block the rubbish.

 

[LordIntruder]

I just can speak for myself. I have an old core 2 in the storage room with two nics, absolutely headless, doing exact that job described by pctek9. Yes, it costs some more energy than having extensions on any machine. But it's easier to handle. I have to manage at only ONE point of my network, and this point is exactly the only way from the internal network to the router (and back), so it can't be bypassed. I must not take my sonic screwdriver to all the clients. The saved time is spend with my family ;-)

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Most of my clients have Untangle at the edge, and like many other *nix firewall distros...it has an adblocker module. Stop 'em at the gateway!

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

Most of my clients have Untangle at the edge, and like many other *nix firewall distros...it has an adblocker module. Stop 'em at the gateway!

How often do you run into issues with things being blocked that need to be allowed? That is my concern with this. I run uBlock Origin on most endpoints and it's pretty simple to whitelist/un-block a page and does not require my intervention.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

How often do you run into issues with things being blocked that need to be allowed? That is my concern with this. I run uBlock Origin on most endpoints and it's pretty simple to whitelist/un-block a page and does not require my intervention.

Honestly...very very rarely. Out of the ~60 or so Untangle rigs we have out at clients, over the past 12 or more years...I think I've had to troubleshoot/remote in and whitelist no more than 6x times.
My one standard I do, on every Untangle box, in the AdBlock module, since nearly EVERYone uses Google for searches, I whitelist "googleadservices.com" because people whine when the top 3 or 4 results of a Google search get blocked when they click on it. Since the top results of a Google search are just paid for ads...the AdBlock module is technically doing its job blocking them. But people whine about that, most don't know enough to scroll down for the real search results.

AdBlock module is the one app that does not auto update on *nix firewalls, must be manually updated. Since most Untangle rigs are at MSP clients and I'm in there checking things fairly regularly, I just punch in updates every few months.

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

Honestly...very very rarely. Out of the ~60 or so Untangle rigs we have out at clients, over the past 12 or more years...I think I've had to troubleshoot/remote in and whitelist no more than 6x times.
My one standard I do, on every Untangle box, in the AdBlock module, since nearly EVERYone uses Google for searches, I whitelist "googleadservices.com" because people whine when the top 3 or 4 results of a Google search get blocked when they click on it. Since the top results of a Google search are just paid for ads...the AdBlock module is technically doing its job blocking them. But people whine about that, most don't know enough to scroll down for the real search results.

AdBlock module is the one app that does not auto update on *nix firewalls, must be manually updated. Since most Untangle rigs are at MSP clients and I'm in there checking things fairly regularly, I just punch in updates every few months.

That's not bad at all. I reckon I'll turn it on for our office and give it a whirl.

 

[GTP]

When using custom hosts files or uBlock Origin for clients that use Chrome and Google Search - the only ip's I have to remove or whitelist are chrome.google.com and googleadservices.com
They seem to be the most troublesome for clients by not allowing Extension downloads and services like Google Momentus.

 

[Markverhyden]

Cloudflare is not a welfare agency nor are they funded under a public policy. You can bet they are harvesting information to fund their operations.