O2 (and BE) connection useless, 30 days cooling off

terra_ferma

kwikbreaks wrote: »

If you are on Access (the ~ £17 a monthupto 8Mbps package which is not available from Be) then OpenDNS won't help and you may as well request your MAC now. I'm guessing you probably are because as I said in my first post I have no DNS issues using the standard O2 DNS.

Sounds like you are assuming that as you are not having DNS problems, it must be other people who don't know what they are talking about....
And this is simply because you could not be bothered to read my reply to this question, therefore keep going on about something I had already replied to.....

I would find it funny if it wasn't that I'm just finding out that OpenDNS does not work well with Windows 7 and the website has no instrucitons for it...

terra_ferma

THANK YOU!!!!
OpenDNS is now working and the results have been instantaneous! :T
I now have a decent connection again!

As I've changed DSN only on my PC, tonight I can compare it with the connection on my laptop, that still uses O2.

:rotfl:

DatabaseError

terra - change the DNS settings of the router itself, then you don't have any "..not work well with Windows 7" issues, dead easy on most routers (though my O2 one is in it's box so I can't check that )

terra_ferma

DatabaseError wrote: »

terra - change the DNS settings of the router itself, then you don't have any "..not work well with Windows 7" issues, dead easy on most routers (though my O2 one is in it's box so I can't check that )

This was a trial, and diagnostic, really, I did not expect it to work so well. Tonight it will be the final test, when we use both the PC and the laptop, and can compare O2 and OpenDNS.

I probably will if I decide to stay with O2 and keep OpenDNS.

On the website it mentions downloading some software in order to maintain the settings when the ISP changes the IP address.
Would you recoomend this (I think this is where people using W7 had problems...)?

Thanks for the advice!

DatabaseError

Even if you chose to leave O2, keep opendns!

Ignore the software (though I haven't looked at it) just change the router's DNS servers and be done with it, it then makes no difference what changes the ISP make to DNS

..and put your computer back to automatic..(I also use win 7 without issue!)

kwikbreaks

The software is so that you can retain any personal options that have been set by registering with OpenDNS and defining your own "network" should your IP change and nothing to do with the ISP changing their DNS servers.

C_Mababejive

ADSL is a different kettle of fish to say..virgin cable. Sometimes you have to do some work yourself to get the best out of it. For most people its an out of box solution but with a bit of know how,you can improve things.

In my case,i had to restructure the extension wiring in my house...i then binned the original O2 box in favour of a netgear DG834GT router after the o2 box started playing up.

DNS issues? i use open dns setup in the router.

I was thinking of seeting up my own DNS server on my lappy but havent looked at it yet.

All in all, o2BE LLU is reckoned to be the pick of the bunch.

If i were you,i;d stay with it for a while..

terra_ferma

C_Mababejive wrote: »

ADSL is a different kettle of fish to say..virgin cable. Sometimes you have to do some work yourself to get the best out of it. For most people its an out of box solution but with a bit of know how,you can improve things.

In my case,i had to restructure the extension wiring in my house...i then binned the original O2 box in favour of a netgear DG834GT router after the o2 box started playing up.

DNS issues? i use open dns setup in the router.

I was thinking of seeting up my own DNS server on my lappy but havent looked at it yet.

All in all, o2BE LLU is reckoned to be the pick of the bunch.

If i were you,i;d stay with it for a while..

Everybody keeps saying O2 is great. I'll see how it goes.

With OpenDNS things have greatly improved and now the service is reliable. Maybe it's not too bad after all....

peter_the_piper

If only we had O2 llu on our exchange but its only orange.

terra_ferma

Well.... O2 must have resolved the problem because now everything works find even using their DNS. :j


Great! Let's hope it continues this way (as from Monday I'll be stuck with them for the next 11months!).

But it's good to know that if I have problems again I can use OpenDNS again!