telecom national wide problem/s?

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Garlotch

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Topic # 151813 6-Sep-2014 08:37

I am connected to the internet, I can use skype but cannot browse the internet I phoned telecom and they said it was a national wide problem. What's up with that?!

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Reply # 1122915 6-Sep-2014 08:44

At home we are on Telecom / Spark and can't browse ' page can't be displayed ' but Skype works OK,

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Reply # 1122921 6-Sep-2014 08:48

DNS has been dead on and off since about 7pm last night.

Changing your DNS temporarily to something like Google's 8.8.8.8 will resolve the issue.

Garlotch

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Reply # 1122926 6-Sep-2014 08:56

yeah i knew it was the dns... whats the ip to get to thompson routers control panel again?

Garlotch

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Reply # 1122928 6-Sep-2014 09:03

i've tried accessing 192.168.1.254, and im sure i havent changed the gateway's ip... i think theres a problem with accessing that as well perhaps...

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Reply # 1122931 6-Sep-2014 09:06

Moved to the correct forum. Please think about this when starting threads.

Also check for existing threads on the subject. Please continue this discussion in the existing thread http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=39&topicid=151805

Keep calm, and carry on posting.