Re: Pipex Web Problems


"Sean Black" <sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I know most people think Pipex are rubbish, but I've had not real problems
with them for the last several years.

Having said that.... :-)

During the day yesterday, the wife was using the internet, all was well.
Last night, I tried to get on and got nothing.

Rebooted the router (Netgear DG834), all lights that should be on are on,
checked the router status page showing a connection to Pipex at 1672 down
and 450 up, not quite the fastest it goes but then a long way from the
slowest.

Can't access the web at all, can't access email or newsgroups, I use
news.individual.net. Bittorrent seems to be working fine although the
trackers are showing red rather than green, but there is still a good
stream of traffic running in both directions, so there definitely appears
to be a connection there.

Tried IE7 and Firefox, can't connect to any websites at all. On further
fiddling late last night, I changed the MTU on the router from the 1468 it
was on to 1500 and was briefly able to collect news and email and get on
the web. This only lasted around 20 minutes and then everything was back
to how it was before.

No programs are able to access the net at all (things like a weather
gadget in the Vista side bar, DVD Profiler, Digiguide and AVG).

I'm pretty sure it's not a PC problem, as I've changed nothing, aside from
the aforementioned MTU (which I changed back) an neither my PS3 or my Xbox
360 can connect to the internet either.

It was too late to ring Pipex last night and I suppose it'll be pretty
pointless ringing them from work without access to my home PC, but will
ring them tonight, if things haven't righted themselves.

In the meantime, any suggestions as to what could be wrong would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
--
Sean Black


Try using Open DNS instead of the Pipex name servers.
Put 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 in the preferred and alternate
DNS servers in the TCP/IP properties of the network interface of your
PC.
Alternatively you can put them in your router, on the Netgear 834
you will find that under "basic settings"

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%


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