Anyone on BT Broadband having weird DNS type issues?

Draeger · 10 May 2015 at 20:52

Had this for a week or so now. I click on a bookmark from Chrome and it takes about 20-30 seconds to open whereas before it was almost instantaneous. Once a page opens it can sometimes take a further minute or so to finish loading all images etc in. Sometimes I just get a 'Page could not be opened' Chrome page. Hit refresh and it opens. Although I mention Chrome the same behaviour occurs with IE. Once a page opens successfully everything seems fine and as fast as normal. But there's something not quite right compared to how it was before in a kinda 'dodgy DNS' type way. Down/Up speeds are as normal at :-

Anyone else having issues at this time?

On Holiday · 10 May 2015 at 20:53

Have you tried changing DNS to see if it resolves the issue?

bledd · 10 May 2015 at 21:06

Change DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

Draeger · 10 May 2015 at 22:38

Cool chaps, I'll give that a go.

KIA · 11 May 2015 at 10:48

or OpenDNS.

darknite · 11 May 2015 at 10:54

Yep had this. Its been blocking topcashback etc. Blocking because parental controls decided it was outside my DNS or something, can't remember the exact message.

Draeger · 15 May 2015 at 20:44

bledd. said:
Change DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

This seems to have done the trick, cheers!

That's Google Public DNS, yeah?

bledd · 15 May 2015 at 21:36

Yup. There may be better options, but it works well for me

Draeger · 15 May 2015 at 23:13

Cool. Working great here. Ta for the 'heads up'.