Virgin DNS Problems

Psiko

Psiko

Psiko

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Is anyone else having problem with Virgin's DNS servers? My internet was down for a day, so changed my DNS settings from Obtain Automatically to Manual and used OpenDNS, and now it's working.
 
I'm glad to hear it's not just me. Are there any disadvantages to switching to OpenDNS? Should I try to change back as soon as it's working again? Would it help to put the Virgin DNS servers in manually?
 
VM DNS is woeful at the best of times. The first thing I do when someone asks me to "sort their PC out" and I notice they're on VM is suggest they move to OpenDNS. The change is immediate and (to them) shocking. Loading times reduce by a mile. I've not seen any downside to OpenDNS personally, but a mate reckons it can mess up shortcuts in Firefox. That's never happened to me though, so... LOL
 
Woah! Was reading this and changed my VM connection to OpenDNS thinking it might solve my access problem to www.tweakguides.com (which it hasn;t...:()

BUT

My connection is like its gone from steamdriven to nuclear! So much snappier!

:D
 
My internet has been pretty patchy in the last few weeks. I switched to opendns on my router a couple of days ago and it's been perfect since then.
 
Just doing mine. Had a memory allocation problem and it told me to reboot and revert to the original version, then try the latest firmware again....
 
ps3ud0 said:
Didnt notice anything faster myself :confused:...

ps3ud0 :cool:
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Good evenings Sir. It would seem you are having the problems with your PC and it will be my delightful to assist you in this matters. Please be exchanging the microfilter on your cable connection (:p) and restarting the computer. When this is completeds, you will be most obliging if you will empty your internet caches by going to the Internet Explorer Internets Options and deleting all temporary and offline files and likewise be deletings the cookies.

Restart your PC, sir, and please be aware that your computer is infested with viruses and malware and potentially even spyware which is causing this slowness for you today. We are not at faults :eek: Please desist from disinfecting our networks with these malwares, sir, it is most unwelcome.

Thank you for calling technical support, your agent today was Moses. I would like to summarise that your connection slowness and difficulties were caused by your hardwares being fail. NFO.

(Way too bored :p:rolleyes::D)
 
lol i always get scottish support people when i phone, harder to understand than the indian call centers :P

just tried this last night but noticed no improvement but the net was non existant last night with a whopping 25kb/s on a 20mb line, today though its noticably faster.
 
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