Hi,
I've recently (2 days ago) got Virgin Net Broadband, Plan One (upto 8mb).
I was previously on NTL until I moved into a non-NTL area, hence now on Virgin.
When I was on NTL I had ICS setup through a wired switch and both pc's could get on the net fine.
I've now installed the provided USB modem and get on the net fine from the pc that has the modem connected to it (we'll call that PC1), but can only ping websites and not browse from the client pc via the switch (we'll call that PC2).
I've basically left the same static IP's and DNS's as before when on NTL. Both PC's can see each others shared folders and talk to each other.
These are the values I've got at the moment:
PC1
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[Network card] (manual setup)
IP Address 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway {blank}
[Virgin Dial-up] (These values are auto-generated via "Obtain from server")
IP Address 82.........
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway {same as IP address, 82...}
DNS Servers 194.168.4.100
194.168.8.100
PC2
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[Network card] (manual setup)
IP Address 192.168.0.253
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers 194.168.4.100
194.168.8.100
Virgin Net seem to use the same DNS's as NTL. The setup above lets me ping any website from PC2, in which I get replies from e.g.
www.yahoo.com, but not get any websites up in the browser EXCEPT for ntl.com.
Somehow, the DNS for PC2 is only allowing ntl.com to be viewed in the browser. I can't even view
www.yahoo.com's by putting in it's IP address in the browser.
It's not a virus/spyware/firewall related, as I've done checks from various products and as I'm able to ping any website on PC2, then some of it is going through. I've used IE6 and Firefox 1.5.0.6.
Is this purely a DNS issue on PC2, do I need to enter other DNS values on that PC? Any thoughts anyone??