X 60RSA
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Registered: 20th Aug 01
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G'Day peeps!
Has anyone been getting a shoot NTL broadband service on and off for a few days?
One minute its fine, then its not. The ntl server status site says ongoing maintenance throughout the country but from the hours of 12am till 6am......
Bloomin annoying!
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
Location: London
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Yes! I have.
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Jules
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Registered: 26th Nov 04
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I can't seem to access the vast majority of big sites (Google, ebay etc etc)
CS is working fine though
No idea what's going on
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X 60RSA
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Registered: 20th Aug 01
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Thank god im not the only one, CS has never let me down!
Like you say, google doesnt want to know, but only when it does, same with e bay......
Must be something there end.
after writing this i went to check the ntl server status shoot:
Service Status Details
Service Broadband
Posted 6 Jun 17:29
Resolved
Last Update 6 Jun 17:29
Duration Ongoing
Type Other
Location Nationwide
Status Service Outage
Start time 6 Jun 17 0
End Time
Description
Browsing Issues
Detail
NTL Broadband internet customers across the whole country may currently be experiencing problems in browsing to web sites. NTL is aware of this issue and working to identify and resolve the cause as quickly as possible. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
[Edited on 06-06-2006 by X 60RSA]
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Dom
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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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dont have any problems here mate, chance it is them peeing about - otherwise you could change your DNS settings (google on how to change them and use the pipex DNS ips in a thread by me).
Eitherway, unless its been on going for a few days then i wouldnt worry about it, but phone customer services if it continues mate 
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X 60RSA
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You rubbing it in about looking for dns on google as i cant get on it :lol
Bloomin thing, yeah its slowly got worse, but appears to be them, cheers for the info.
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Dom
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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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Changing DNS:
under your network cards properties, tcp/ip properties, change it from "obtain DNS....automatically" to "Use the following..." then press ok to all the windows.
Use pipex's dns servers, might help -
Primary - 158.43.240.4
Secondary - 158.43.240.3
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
Location: London
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Would I change the settings in the router for the above? or still change my own network card properties?
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Bram
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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Aaaarrgghhhh! I've just reconfigured my router about 5 times because I thought it was fooked! Been doing my nut in!
Hopefully NTL are upgrading connnection speeds then!!!
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Dom
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change them at the router if you can, though from what i remember both methods work the same
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
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if I change the dns settings and then they say upgrade speeds will it not improve for me?
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
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connection need to be reset or something? entered those 2 dns yet when I try to access google still doesn't work.
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Dom
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yea, try resetting the router mate - though ive just had the same problems, had to use ip addresses to access google (216.239.39.104)  but i usually find the pipex dns's to be generally quicker
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
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Ace ken 
just reset the router and now all works.
I entered BT DNS, PIPEX and another.
So effectively if it has problems it'll search all 4 now just needed to switch router on and off to get it to do it
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
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PMSL the joke is - I live in a house of 8 students, only I and 1 other in the house know anything computery.
So when all the houses mates were coming up to me saying 'Why the fuck isn't the internet working? why is it taking forever to access sites' - I just kept saying ah its that aussie bastard upstairs downloading 24/7 - there's no more bandwidth for you guys.
They've all been calling him a twat etc
Oops  oh well - internet is working nicely now though. Cheers dom.
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abdus
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Registered: 23rd Feb 06
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manual proxy with this:
HTTP proxy: 213.105.224.11
port: 8080
mate from ntl gave me this
had the same problem accessing sites, ebay, google etc...
since proxying, no problemo
[Edited on 06-06-2006 by abdus]
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Paul_J
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weird all mine seems to have gone pete tong again
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X 60RSA
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Registered: 20th Aug 01
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It should be resolved in the morning, ntl says an overload of the DNS servers has caused this, there are investigating, things wont be back to normal until tomorrow morning sometime apprantly.
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Bram
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quote:
Originally posted by abdus
manual proxy with this:
HTTP proxy: 213.105.224.11
port: 8080
mate from ntl gave me this
had the same problem accessing sites, ebay, google etc...
since proxying, no problemo
[Edited on 06-06-2006 by abdus]
This solved the problem for me
How do I connect to my router control panel now though (from a wireless client)?
When i try 192.168.1.1 it says cannot connect to server?
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abdus
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Registered: 23rd Feb 06
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you need to hard reset the router...press the reset button at the back of your router for 30secs...then turn on your cable modem and everything should be fine
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Jamescorsa97
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quote:
Originally posted by Bram
Aaaarrgghhhh! I've just reconfigured my router about 5 times because I thought it was fooked! Been doing my nut in!
Hopefully NTL are upgrading connnection speeds then!!!
I did exactly the same thing last night mate.
Kept showing 0 connected clients.
I had utter shit service all day yesterday!!!
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dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
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quote:
Originally posted by abdus
manual proxy with this:
HTTP proxy: 213.105.224.11
port: 8080
mate from ntl gave me this
had the same problem accessing sites, ebay, google etc...
since proxying, no problemo
[Edited on 06-06-2006 by abdus]
more info
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50Calibre
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in internet connection settings within your browser.. there should be an option to connect via a proxy server or something similiar.. enter the above details into there
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abdus
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Registered: 23rd Feb 06
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quote:
Originally posted by dave17
quote:
Originally posted by abdus
manual proxy with this:
HTTP proxy: 213.105.224.11
port: 8080
mate from ntl gave me this
had the same problem accessing sites, ebay, google etc...
since proxying, no problemo
[Edited on 06-06-2006 by abdus]
more info
in firefox:
Tools, Options, General, Connection Settings, Manual Proxy Configuration
in IE:
Tools, Internet Options, Connection, Lan Settings, Proxy Server, tick use a proxy server and fill in
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dave17
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