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bubs999 · 14-02-2007, 17:48

I have 2mb broadband connected in the following way.

Laptop, wired into Linsys WRT54GS router, wired into a cable modem and connected to Virgin cable.

The router was installed about 3 weeks ago and worked perfectly.

Last night whilst browsing the web, my internet connection stopped working. I would get "page cannot be displayed". I rebooted the modem and router and it worked again.

Its been working all day and all evening, up until 30 minutes ago when I kept getting the same error message, after 15 minutes of surfing. I checked the error message and its a DNS error.

Tried re-booting everything and still no joy. Phoned through to NTL faults who initially told me that broadband was down in my area, but I questioned that as I can connect to the Internet, just not resolve Web addresses (Xbox Live works fine)

She went through some tests with me, re-booting etc and still nothing. We changed the internet settings to use a proxy server 213.105.224.12
She then told me it was IE7 and I needed to re-install IE6 as lots of people had complained about IE7 and it was a beta (mines a full version downloaded automatically) When I said I didn't want to do that as it had been working fine, we went through some ping tests. I couldn't ping www.bbc.co.uk

She checked my IP address and from that noticed I had a router and told me to unplug that and just use the Cable modem.

I tried that and I now have internet access but no router and no firewall. I have other items connected to the router which work fine, just not either of the laptop's

What can I do to get my router to work again? I haven't installed anything extra and have not changed any settings.

I am running windows XP and I'm not using windows firewall and everything is wired in and not wireless.

I logged onto my router and reset the settings and it works fine for a little while and then plays up. This is the 3rd evening of problems with it.

I'm out of ideas, I tried to configure the IP manually by putting in some DNS address's 195.110.64.205 and 206 but it still don't work

Help me please !!!!

14-02-2007, 17:48	#1
bubs999 Inactive Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 59	Linksys router and DNS problems with NTL I have 2mb broadband connected in the following way. Laptop, wired into Linsys WRT54GS router, wired into a cable modem and connected to Virgin cable. The router was installed about 3 weeks ago and worked perfectly. Last night whilst browsing the web, my internet connection stopped working. I would get "page cannot be displayed". I rebooted the modem and router and it worked again. Its been working all day and all evening, up until 30 minutes ago when I kept getting the same error message, after 15 minutes of surfing. I checked the error message and its a DNS error. Tried re-booting everything and still no joy. Phoned through to NTL faults who initially told me that broadband was down in my area, but I questioned that as I can connect to the Internet, just not resolve Web addresses (Xbox Live works fine) She went through some tests with me, re-booting etc and still nothing. We changed the internet settings to use a proxy server 213.105.224.12 She then told me it was IE7 and I needed to re-install IE6 as lots of people had complained about IE7 and it was a beta (mines a full version downloaded automatically) When I said I didn't want to do that as it had been working fine, we went through some ping tests. I couldn't ping www.bbc.co.uk She checked my IP address and from that noticed I had a router and told me to unplug that and just use the Cable modem. I tried that and I now have internet access but no router and no firewall. I have other items connected to the router which work fine, just not either of the laptop's What can I do to get my router to work again? I haven't installed anything extra and have not changed any settings. I am running windows XP and I'm not using windows firewall and everything is wired in and not wireless. I logged onto my router and reset the settings and it works fine for a little while and then plays up. This is the 3rd evening of problems with it. I'm out of ideas, I tried to configure the IP manually by putting in some DNS address's 195.110.64.205 and 206 but it still don't work Help me please !!!!