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askelon: Ive come across 2 of these in the last week or so and both are very troublesome. Both have browsed to some websites and not others - a prime example would be www.news.com. It says its connecting then sits there for ever. Yesterday I had a customer with one who cant browse to the www.companies.govt.nz website. There was a technician there from another company doing some other work and he was having problems with certain things as well. Anyone else come across any stangeness with these routers? And does anyone have a solution? Im thinking it could be some dodgy DNS settings or something. Its definately not computer specific. If we swapped to a spare modem it all worked fine.
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askelon: I havent had problems with previous ones, only ones that customers have recieved in the last couple of months tops. Sites that werent working for me from memory are:
www.news.com / cnet.news.com
www.companies.govt.nz
I really cant remember the others anymore but the companies one was definately the big one for one of my customers.
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michaelmurfy: Another thing you could try is OpenDNS (http://www.opendns.com):
Change the DNS Server's IP's to 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
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Talkiet:michaelmurfy: Another thing you could try is OpenDNS (http://www.opendns.com):
Change the DNS Server's IP's to 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
To be fair, you could try it, but only if you wanted worse performance than your ISP DNS servers, and was happy to not have some of the caching benefits that involve the use of your ISPs DNS servers.
It's been frequently proved that there are no 3rd party DNS servers that are better than ISP DNS servers in NZ.
I'm not going to link you to this proof because it's so obvious, and 2 minutes googling will find numerous examples.
I really wish this particular myth would die in NZ.
Cheers - N
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michaelmurfy:
[snip]208ms Ping vs 142ms Ping to my ISP's DNS Servers average - I have always found there hasn't been any speed decrease with using OpenDNS, but that could just be me. I suggested it to test if it was a DNS issue he was talking about, since to me this does sound a bit like a DNS issue on his end.
Just sayin'
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Talkiet:michaelmurfy:
[snip]208ms Ping vs 142ms Ping to my ISP's DNS Servers average - I have always found there hasn't been any speed decrease with using OpenDNS, but that could just be me. I suggested it to test if it was a DNS issue he was talking about, since to me this does sound a bit like a DNS issue on his end.
Just sayin'
Fair enough - it was determined that the problem turned out to be an MTU issue but yes, the description sounded like it might have been DNS...
But I would like to ask who your ISP is that gives you 142ms ping _AVERAGE_!?!? I know that at peak times, some ISPs see increased response times, but 142ms to an NZ based DNS server on average? Ouch!
Cheers - N.
ps. Just occurred to me that perhaps some wireless providers might have that much latency introduced in the access layer...
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michaelmurfy:Talkiet:michaelmurfy:
[snip]208ms Ping vs 142ms Ping to my ISP's DNS Servers average - I have always found there hasn't been any speed decrease with using OpenDNS, but that could just be me. I suggested it to test if it was a DNS issue he was talking about, since to me this does sound a bit like a DNS issue on his end.
Just sayin'
Fair enough - it was determined that the problem turned out to be an MTU issue but yes, the description sounded like it might have been DNS...
But I would like to ask who your ISP is that gives you 142ms ping _AVERAGE_!?!? I know that at peak times, some ISPs see increased response times, but 142ms to an NZ based DNS server on average? Ouch!
Cheers - N.
ps. Just occurred to me that perhaps some wireless providers might have that much latency introduced in the access layer...
I'm using Vodafone Mobile Broadband.
The Vodem is connected to a linux box, which bridges the connection through ethernet - acting like a NAT Router in the process.
Please note all comments are from my own brain and don't necessarily represent the position or opinions of my employer, previous employers, colleagues, friends or pets.
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