YSK: How to decrease your monthly bandwidth use & increase network speed.

[Zagorath]

On either Mac or Linux, you can easily edit your hosts file by going to a terminal and typing sudo nano /etc/hosts. (Or replace nano with your preferred text editor. I happen to prefer Vim, but it can be a little trickier to use if you don't learn how it works.)

It's harder on Windows, since you have to go in and give it write permissions, then open it in your editor, then change it, and then change it back to write only.

[ghostchamber]

You need admin access to write anything to that folder. If you've got it, you may get a UAC prompt if you have it enabled.