wireless modem routers

[Ardesco]

I had this happen with a netgear router on Ubuntu.

The cause was the DNS server supplied by the router, It was setting primary DNS to localhost 127.0.0.1 and the secondary DNS correctly. Of course this meant that every time i tried to browse to something it would wait for primary DNS to time out and then use secondary DNS and burst into life.

Check your /etc/resolv.conf and see what the DNS entries are.

[richard-af]

I've seen this happen where IPv6 is enabled on Linux. You might want to look into that.

Boffin! I'll try that! Thanks!!!

[VectraMan]

Netgear here. No problems, and I've used outgoing VPN with it.

It's an old 11Mb one, and in theory today I'm switching to 8Mb ADSL. So I wonder if it's worth upgrading as the wireless speed could now become the bottleneck?

Why do you want to switch it off?

[BoredBloke]

Mine is a netgear and has been as stable as anything since I updated the firmware. Prior to that it woulod drop it's connection at very regular intervals. Since the update it has worked well with only the odd reboot when it hangs. Not tried doing a VPN back to my home PC but it's worked fine with everything I asked of it regarding outward connections. Netgear support is rubbish though.

[richard-af]

I had this happen with a netgear router on Ubuntu.

The cause was the DNS server supplied by the router, It was setting primary DNS to localhost 127.0.0.1 and the secondary DNS correctly. Of course this meant that every time i tried to browse to something it would wait for primary DNS to time out and then use secondary DNS and burst into life.

Check your /etc/resolv.conf and see what the DNS entries are.

It's times like this that make my mindless wandering through this site worthwhile. Thanks.

[BoredBloke]

Right after I posted my bit about my router it has started dropping its connection every 20 mins or so - really annoying

[fzbucks]

Right after I posted my bit about my router it has started dropping its connection every 20 mins or so - really annoying

It must have known you were talking about it

[Flubster]

Some of you hardware boffs may scoff at this, but I've had my Orange (Wanadoo) Livebox for 3 years now and find it does everything I need. 2 wired connections, upto 6 wireless connections, bluetooth and USB (so I can network my printer).

I used to use the Livetalk option (VoIP) but found it to be quite poor quality compared to Skype.

Also works when I VPN into client sites...

Yes, I have Orange as my ISP, but never had a problem...but then I've never had to contact their Tech Support...

[richard-af]

Sadly, still having annoying slow-to-lookup problems. I have followed above advice. It doesn't disconnect - just takes an age to actually find a site. Once connected, download speed is same as with W2K. Stumped.

[Ardesco]

Is it slow if you only use IP addresses to browse?

(Just ping the site in a command prompt to get the IP and they try browsing using them).

If the speed is fine using IP addresses to browse, but slow when using domain names it is 100% a DNS problem.

Also if you checked you /etc/resolv.conf bear in mind that if you are still getting your DNS servers through DHCP it may have overwritten any changes you have made.