router will not share cable broadband?

[scotte]

Thanks TechFreak. As you said, follow the steps and all is good.
Your help is appreciated.

[TechFreak]

I have been on the phone to Virgin Tech Support this morning and identified how i solved the problem by using the OPENDNS.com DNS Servers addresses.

Virgin have now confirmed that they have a known problem with a couple of their DNS Servers which are down at the moment.

Virgin Tech Support have given me two temporary Virgin DNS Servers addresses to use to replace the OPENDNS.com addresses. (just to keep things going via Virgin)

These are :

193.38.113.3
194.117.157.4

(will try these tonight as i'm at work)

Virgin Tech Support also said 'every couple of days set your Lan card & Router DNS Servers back to 'Request default' in case they resolve the issue'

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR GAMERS : The way OPENDNS.com works is by keeping cached pages that other users have went to. If you are generally surfing the web this won't make much difference to you and may even find surfing faster.

But if your a gamer like myself then this is a problem as I play Battlefield 2 all the time and could not connect to most servers as the cached Server List being extracted through OPENDNS.com was most likely out of date.

[barq]

I've just been trying out different DNS settings but it hasn't made a difference with me. Thanks anyway though.

Sounds like you have been speaking to someone quite helpful though. Was that through regular tech support? I'm not getting anywhere with them because they regard it as a problem with my equipment.

Interestingly I notice that when I connect a router to the cable modem (ntl:home200) the U/S light gets stuck on - not flickering but fixed on. I've done the whole power-cycle, disconnect/reconnect the coax routine (all the details are in this thread). Any other ideas?

[nwhessian]

Hi everybody, good to see lots of input on this thread.
I have tried everything that people have come up with and still ahve issues!
Im worried now that i just have compatability issues.
I got the Pre N router as i wanted good range and speed.
But i dont have a pre N adapter for my laptop.
Looking on the web i have found that belkin do not currently support vista on the pre n laptop cards so i wont bother getting one of them yet.
Been peridically watching my connection, and as i havent used the PC for a while the laptop is connecting to the router fine.
But while online on the laptop it will systematically kick me off leaving me a connection to the router but no internet.
Used the wireless lan on my nokia n95 and this also gets kicked out too.
Do you think my problems could actually be belkin, or fujitsu siemens (laptop make)
When i bought the laptop it came with a note and a cd to reinstall WLan drivers, so there were obviously some issues anyway.
Anymore comments welcome!
Cheers
Neil