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able to access some sites but not others??

post #1 of 5
4/12/06 at 4:24pm
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hi,
I have a netgear DG834g router with AOL. With my old toshiba laptop I had no problems accessing anything. When I first got my sony vaio FE, connection continued to be fine. However, the last couple of weeks the machine has started not loading a number of sites- fanfiction.net is one example; microsoft is difficult too. Thing is, I'm certain it's nothing to do with my AV/firewall/browser settings since I was able to connect to all sites via dial up!

I've tried reinstalling the drivers for the router and there's no difference- I'm still unable to access those sites. I don't even get a time out message- it simply acts as if it's loading the page, and then it (may) say done- but it's a blank page! The headers/ titles of fanfiction.net load, but nothing else.

Any ideas? I've read something about DNS settings???
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post #2 of 5
4/12/06 at 5:26pm
Get a command prompt open and type "ipconfig /flushdns" without quotes. Then try again.
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post #3 of 5
4/12/06 at 5:49pm
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Tried that- no luck. Also installed and ran the winsock xp fix. Incidentally, I can't connect on hotmail either.

I think my parents may have a spare adsl modem. If all else fails I could hook up to it for those sites. I considered doing a clean install, but since I know that it's not a fault with my computer settings- otherwise i'd have the same prob through dialup- that seems like overkill.

Any other suggestions? Connecting through wired ethernet via the router is just as problematic.
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post #4 of 5
4/12/06 at 7:56pm
Have you tried connecting directly, without using the router? It might help to isolate the problem on the router.
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post #5 of 5
4/13/06 at 1:14am
some routers (read: cheap home routers like ours) have problems when you use it as DNS "repeater" (I use that word, but it may not be the technical one). See my example: I have an extermely good router here, imo (Linksys WRT54G), but I noticed that if my ADSL connection stop for some time (maintenance), when it returns, the router may show some problems resolving DNS names. Normally, what I do is to use, as DNS servers, the ones offered by my ADSL provider, and not the router address (192.168.0.1).

Anyway, that happened when I was using the Linksys firmware. After I installed OpenWrt on it, that problem never happened again, go figure...

ps.: if you do what Shepoch said, and it works, it may be exactly that, since you will be connecting directly to the internet, and using your provider DNS addresses.
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