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Can only access certain sites with BT

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  • 21-04-2008 6:59pm
    #1
    cosgrove80
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭


    My BT broadband (1 meg) was acting up the other day. I decided to update the firmware on my router, a 3com Officeconnect to see if made a difference.

    I re-entered the BT settings and the connection is up and running but with problems.

    I'm able to get on some site, like boards for example but I can't get on other sites (btireland.com). For other sites it say it can't find the server but when I refresh the page it loads the site ok.

    I can ping some sites no problem too and others time out.

    I can't get on the BT site to check my settings. Any suggestions what could be wrong?


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    #2
    NCS
    Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭NCS


    btireland.ie is also unavailable to me currently, I assume they have problems...


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    #3
    cosgrove80
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭cosgrove80


    This is driving me mental

    I can get onto boards.i and google.com but for the majority of sites, I click on them, the page title loads up and the page just sits there loading and eventually times out.

    Are there settings on the router I should change. Would MTU numbers etc affect anything?


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    muffinhead
    Registered Users Posts: 529 ✭✭✭muffinhead


    I'm on BT 1MB also and I found, a while back, quite a few sites would only load the title then hang for about 30secs in IE6. So I switched to Firefox, with the AdBlock Plus extension installed, and amazingly these sites load much quicker now.

    If you check the status bar, when these sites don't load, does it say something like "loading ads.*****.com"?

    http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/firefox/


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    cosgrove80
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭cosgrove80


    muffinhead wrote: »
    I'm on BT 1MB also and I found, a while back, quite a few sites would only load the title then hang for about 30secs in IE6. So I switched to Firefox, with the AdBlock Plus extension installed, and amazingly these sites load much quicker now.

    If you check the status bar, when these sites don't load, does it say something like "loading ads.*****.com"?

    http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/firefox/

    Have the two of them installed already. Was hoping to upgrade to 2 meg but not sure if I'll bother if the service is dodgy


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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,235 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    Try flush the DNS cache with "ipconfig /flushdns" in a command prompt.


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    zAbbo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,987 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    OpenDNS time - http://www.opendns.com/

    I used to be on BT and the DNS was a little flaky


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    #8
    cosgrove80
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭cosgrove80


    Thanks lads.

    I've tried the two of them and things seem to have improved. Hopefully it'll work ok now.

    Appreciate the help.


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