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From: Mike Easter on 19 Jan 2010 18:29 jinxy wrote: > I don't know what to tell you. The owners of the LT run on the Bell > network and it won't connect for them and they live in Bancroft Ont. > We have 4 LT's running off of our wireless router, plus 3 of the 4 > ports are cabled and no one ever complains about connectivity > problems. How do I go about fixing it without messing up all of the > other units? Down the rabbit hole we go. What does ipconfig on one of the other computers on your network say? Start> Run> cmd> ipconfig /all What happens if you put this address into a browser addressline on the LT? http://209.68.27.16/ That's the IP chicken which will answer by its IP address. What is the brand and modelno of your router? I'll figure out how you can look at its status to see if anything is funny in there. -- Mike Easter
From: Mike Easter on 19 Jan 2010 19:13 "jinxy" > Mike Easter wrote: >> jinxy wrote: >> > IPv4 DNS servers 64.71.225.198 >> >> I don't like that DNS server and I don't know where it came from. >> Google recently started offering a free public dns server at 8.8.8.8 >> and >> 8.8.4.4 which I assessed with Steve Gibson's dns tool. =A0The google >> one >> was faster than earthlink's but slower than open dns. > How do I go about fixing it without messing up all of the > other units? You can configure to use google's dns instead of the assigned one just for the LT. I'm looking at a vista machine now: Start/ CP/ Network and sharing center/ Manage network connections/ R click wireless network connection/ Properties (continue alert)/ select Internet Protocol 4 etc and click the Properties button/ General tab - change obtain DNS address automatically to Use the following DNS server addresses and populate with google's public dns IPs 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.and OK your way back out. -- Mike Easter
From: Mike Easter on 19 Jan 2010 19:28 Mike Easter wrote: > "jinxy" >>> IPv4 DNS servers 64.71.225.198 >>> >>> I don't like that DNS server and I don't know where it came from. >> How do I go about fixing it without messing up all of the >> other units? > > You can configure to use google's dns instead of the assigned one just > for the LT. Here's google's page offering the service and providing configuration instructions link http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ - What is Google Public DNS? - Read our configuration instructions. - http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html - Using Google Public DNS - Configuring your network settings to use Google Public DNS - Changing DNS server settings on Microsoft Windows Vista -- Mike Easter
From: Mike Easter on 19 Jan 2010 22:41 nobody wrote: > Mike Easter wrote: >> nameservice from my connectivity provider earthlink, I am assigned >> their nameserver, but I don't like it, so I mostly use the free fast >> public one of opendns. > Mike should have at least told more about OpenDNS. Ha! I'm always telling too much more about everything :-) > http://www.opendns.com/ > > I've been using OpenDNS for a few years now. Good info about opendns. They actually have a lot of stuff to offer. > It's just me, but I prefer NOT to use *anything* a broadband provider > gives you except "the pipe". When I was trying to find the DNS IP for Rogers (I never did) I ran into rogers webforum talk where a lot of/ some/ people were recommending to not use Rogers DNS. Earthlink caught so much flak about that advertising on failed DNS that they chose to offer an optional set of IPs that didn't do that. -- Mike Easter
From: jinxy on 20 Jan 2010 17:30
On Jan 19, 6:29 pm, Mike Easter <Mi...(a)ster.invalid> wrote: > jinxy wrote: > > I don't know what to tell you. The owners of the LT run on the Bell > > network and it won't connect for them and they live in Bancroft Ont. > > We have 4 LT's running off of our wireless router, plus 3 of the 4 > > ports are cabled and no one ever complains about connectivity > > problems. How do I go about fixing it without messing up all of the > > other units? Down the rabbit hole we go. > > > > Start> Run> cmd> ipconfig /all > > What happens if you put this address into a browser addressline on the > LT? http://209.68.27.16/ > > That's the IP chicken which will answer by its IP address. > > What is the brand and modelno of your router? I'll figure out how you > can look at its status to see if anything is funny in there. > > -- > Mike Easter >What does ipconfig on one of the other computers on your network say? The IP on a second pc says- 192.168.1.103 with the same DNS server # 64.71.255.198 -When I entered the Ip Chicken address into the browser I get the same reply- IE cannot display the webpage Router- Linksys m/n WRT54G v.3 Thanks.-J |