Hi

I'm having serious drama with my new Netgear Nighthawk R7000 router : I suspect it's impeding my access to Rugbypass.com through a DNS4me account I have. In order to stream rugby via Rugbypass.com, one needs a DNS4me subscription, and a rugbypass.com subscription - both of which I have. You then tell the computer to use two different DNS addresses (provided by DNS4me) rather than the standard 192.168.1.1 when accessing rugbypass.com. It was working fine (when I had the crappy Spark modem) however with the new Netgear router, it's now not working - although has worked with the Netgear router. To be honest, I don't understand enough about the whole DNS thing, to understand where it's falling over. What I do know, is that when I set the Mac's Network control panel to use the 2 DNS addresses provided by DNS4me AND remove the 192.168.1.1, it completely prevents the computer from accessing ANYTHING online. Unless 192.168.1.1 is there, the Mac won't go online. This didn't used to be the case - and am wondering if it's connected with the new router. Would there be a setting in the router that needs to be changed?

Any help much appreciated! It's driving me nuts and I've spent hours on it. Have lodged support tickets with DNS4me and RugbyPass but no joy.

Is there a guide someone could point me to so I can better understand how a network like this functions? Ie what all the IP addresses are/do, DNS addresses etc of the various devices involved : e.g. router, computer, devices...