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ShadowTD · 03-10-2011, 11:13

As usual when the students return to Loughborough, the broadband takes a hammering and speeds generally go to pot. But this year is the first time I've been on the overlay network, so I was hoping things wouldn't be as bad.

Fat chance! Middle of last week things began to get a bit ropey but I was too busy to do any investigating until yesterday. So while things were running terribly just for pure browsing I did a Speedtest. Hmmm, full speeds and sub 20ms ping. Is it the DNS servers?

Yep, seems to be. Switched over to Google and everything's smooth as butter again. Annoyingly, due to now having the (generally OK for me, especially since R30) Superhub, I have to change the DNS servers on all of my devices individually. Annoy.

Anyone else in the area having the same problem?

03-10-2011, 11:13	#1
ShadowTD Inactive Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Loughborough (Langley) Services: 200Mb & SH2ac Posts: 823	LE11 - Students back, DNS goes to pot. As usual when the students return to Loughborough, the broadband takes a hammering and speeds generally go to pot. But this year is the first time I've been on the overlay network, so I was hoping things wouldn't be as bad. Fat chance! Middle of last week things began to get a bit ropey but I was too busy to do any investigating until yesterday. So while things were running terribly just for pure browsing I did a Speedtest. Hmmm, full speeds and sub 20ms ping. Is it the DNS servers? Yep, seems to be. Switched over to Google and everything's smooth as butter again. Annoyingly, due to now having the (generally OK for me, especially since R30) Superhub, I have to change the DNS servers on all of my devices individually. Annoy. Anyone else in the area having the same problem?