DNS SearchList in Regedit

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I was unable to access my college school site from my home computer. After some reading I tried clearing the search list in regedit. I followed the steps below.

Using Regedit
The primary DNS suffix is stored in the registry in the following location:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Paramaters

You might want to change the values for the following registry keys:

Domain (REG_SZ)
SearchList (REG_SZ)

You might want to consider running ipconfig /registerdns after changing the Primary DNS Suffix.

After following these steps I have been receiving lag spikes while playing games as well as horrible speed tests. I am currently getting 6mbs while my laptop gets 100mbs. If anyone has any information that could help without me reimaging my machine I would love to hear it.

 
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You really should not be messing with regeidt unless you really know what you are doing. Those 2 fields are in general only used when your PC is a member of a domain. They have no use when you are just on the internet. The default value is nothing...it is not a space. If you tried to blank them try to delete and recreate them instead it is easier to put nothing in the field.

Still I doubt that is related to your problems. Anything related to name resolutions is only done in the beginning of sessions. Once your PC has found the actual IP address it uses that instead so one say the game is open it will not use the name again. Most games do not even use this they have their own methods for choosing servers.

This is tough to...
You really should not be messing with regeidt unless you really know what you are doing. Those 2 fields are in general only used when your PC is a member of a domain. They have no use when you are just on the internet. The default value is nothing...it is not a space. If you tried to blank them try to delete and recreate them instead it is easier to put nothing in the field.

Still I doubt that is related to your problems. Anything related to name resolutions is only done in the beginning of sessions. Once your PC has found the actual IP address it uses that instead so one say the game is open it will not use the name again. Most games do not even use this they have their own methods for choosing servers.

This is tough to say you may have messed something else up. Still you can load wireshark and compare the data streams from the pc that works to the pc that does not. You will quickly see if there are issues other than simple data loss causing the problem.
 
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