Pages not loading a lot.

[allosunshine]

I was wondering if you guys could help.
While surfing I get a lot of 'page cannot be displayed', a quick refresh and the page loads.
My internet doesn't drop at all.
I've been using OpenDNS for my DNS but switched back to Tiscali's DNS servers just to check but I'm still having the same problem.
I know Tiscali ins't the best but I'm not paying for it at the moment.
Could it be dropped packets or something along those lines?? I also have a server monitor running which monitors some of my websites I have and this drops as well, again a quick refresh and its fine.

Thanks

 

[allosunshine]

are you running anything like torrents or something similar that use a large number of connections? If you haven't set it up correctly then it will be using your routers max connections and as such sometimes when you try to view a page it wont work, a refresh will generally get it through. Could also be a dodgy router setting. To check for packet loss run a ping to a webserver somewhere with -t on it eg. ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -t
and leave it running for a while.

I only run torrents when I'm not using it.

rebooted router recently?

No I haven't rebooted the router recently, do you think its worht a shot??

 

[allosunshine]

Router was rebooted, still happening though. Any other suggestions??