Huawei HG659 VDSL with Chromecast

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yeosteve

9 posts

Wannabe Geek

Topic # 157534 3-Dec-2014 23:22

Hi,
I just got my VDSL connection (Vodafone) with a Huawei HG659 router and now Netflix is giving me the old "We're not available in your country yet" message, even though it's playing on my computer. I have a Chromecast and an unblockus.com account, and I have set my router's DNS to the ones listed on their site.
I have tracked down the problem to Chromecast being hard coded to use Googles DNS and found and answer on unblockus (suppport.unblockus.com/customer/portal/questions/1385727-chromecast) that gives a good solution, but I need a bit of help to set this up on my router. I have logged in as Admin (VF-NZhg659) and I suspect the right place to look is in Static Routing, but obviously I am far from being an expert in this.

Any help would be appreciated so I can get back to watching House on my new big TV

rokki

374 posts

Ultimate Geek
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Reply # 1188394 4-Dec-2014 05:38

Hi in the HG659 look for

Internet , Parental control and enter under url filter 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as address to block

Your issue should be solved might pay to reboot as well.

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yeosteve

9 posts

Wannabe Geek

Reply # 1191702 8-Dec-2014 16:50

I did what you said, thank you, but then nothing worked, so I took the Google DNSs off the parental control and it all burst into life again. Netflix works just like it always did.

I'm confused, but happy.

rokki

374 posts

Ultimate Geek
+1 received by user: 51

Reply # 1191889 9-Dec-2014 02:40

Hi very strange but if working now then all good. :)

yeosteve

9 posts

Wannabe Geek

Reply # 1192571 10-Dec-2014 07:19

For anyone reading this - next time I tried tpo watch I had to parental block 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 again, so I've left them at that and it works a treat. Much simpler answer than having to change the iptables, thank you.