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Clicksilver DNS failing?

radiospan · 2006-04-14 11:27:38

Since last night, browsing in Firefox has been very slow for me on Clicksilver (3MB, unlimited cap option). The "looking up www. ... .com..." stage takes ages, and often times out. Once it gets past this stage (and on to "Connecting to www. ... com...") it okay. It's just the "looking up" part which is really slow. Is this…

14-04-2006 12:27pm

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radiospan

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Since last night, browsing in Firefox has been very slow for me on Clicksilver (3MB, unlimited cap option).

The "looking up www. ... .com..." stage takes ages, and often times out. Once it gets past this stage (and on to "Connecting to www. ... com...") it okay. It's just the "looking up" part which is really slow.

Is this the part where it looks up the website in UTV's DNS servers? Is there anything I can do to check where the problem is?

My internet has been dropping out completely a lot since last night too.

Any one else got these problems? (Is anyone even still with UTV?)

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#2 17-04-2006 7:42pm

brettmirl

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Having similar problems today with Clicksilver. Am also Cork based (if that makes any difference!)

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#3 18-04-2006 12:01am

dub45

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might be worth trying the proxy 195.218.116.8 port 3128

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