Really annoying problem

[Nick.]

Well I'm at my Dad's house in Spain and his internet speed is about 5meg, speedtest.net shows it as 5700KBPS. So anyway, on his laptop the internet is super fast and it all works perfectly, but on mine, sites just won't load, I have to keep refreshing them. Habbox Forum works perfectly for some odd reason, but any other site just doesn't load unless I refresh loads. It takes about ten minutes to load a page. Habboxforum is the only site I have fast access to. Now once I get something download, (like Firefox last night, took 10 mins to get to the page) it goes full speed at 570KB/s.

I just don't understand how my Dad's laptop works with the internet perfectly but on mine I can only access HabboxForum. My laptop works fine at home so does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.


Thread moved from Technology Discussion by ,Jess, (Forum Super Moderator).

[Recursion]

Try taking it off the WLAN and reconnecting it.

Try restarting the router and disabling/enabling the wireless connection on your laptop.

[Nick.]

I've done all that. I can't reset the router because it's upstairs (my Dad's house is split in two) and the people living there moved out hence the fact we have the internet connection, so we don't have access to upstairs and I've tried logging into 192.168.1.1 and tried admin and pass and admin and password but nothing works!

:(

[N!ck]

Do you know the make/model of the router? For instance, mine tells you what it is on the login page.

[Nick.]

Well it's 'Telefonica' branded but the make/model is Comtrend, Model CT536+

I don't think it's anything to do with the router though cos it works perfectly on every laptop but mine, it's something to do with the settings. I could do with getting into the router control panel though because I need to change some DNS settings. I'm searching the net for default passwords for Comtrend routers but none of them work. Found it, it's 1234 and 1234.

Right, I'm in and can change the DNS and stuff. On my laptop the DNS 80.58.61.250 and 80.58.61.254. Now the internet download speed is amazing but it's actually finding the host, I think it's cos it has to find the DNS server everytime. How can I fix this, I'm use OS X 10.5.6 btw.

[Hitman]

Well it's 'Telefonica' branded but the make/model is Comtrend, Model CT536+

I don't think it's anything to do with the router though cos it works perfectly on every laptop but mine, it's something to do with the settings. I could do with getting into the router control panel though because I need to change some DNS settings.Aha, that's the same as my router (I'm also in Spain). Try this.

Username: 1234
Password: 1234

It will be that if it hasn't been changed.

[Robbie]

Are you using any 3rd party DNS servers such as OpenDNS?

[Nick.]

I'm trying that now, I wasn't doing so though. I'm just running round a few sites to see if it has helped though.

[Nick.]

Right here is my Speedtest.net result
http://www.speedtest.net/result/381814674.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

As you can see the ping is pretty bad but the download speed is better than mine in the UK! I had to use the London server cos everywhere in Spain timed out. So you can see the internet is fast it's just a problem with finding the host or connecting to the DNS or something. OpenDNS didn't help much.

[Robbie]

When you go to www.opendns.com do you see in the top right corner "You are using OpenDNS"

[Nick.]

When you go to www.opendns.com do you see in the top right corner "You are using OpenDNS"
Yes. It's helped quite a bit but Bebo and some other stuff still takes ageeeeees.

[Robbie]

Go into command prompt and type

tracert bebo.com

[Nick.]

I'm using OS X, command not found. I'm using Terminal. I pinged Bebo...
Nicks-MacBook:~ nicksj$ ping bebo.com
PING bebo.com (208.75.184.192): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=358.301 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=241.953 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 time=302.068 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=3 ttl=242 time=242.539 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=4 ttl=242 time=247.492 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=5 ttl=242 time=265.261 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=6 ttl=242 time=288.736 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=7 ttl=242 time=309.331 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=8 ttl=242 time=331.851 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=9 ttl=242 time=253.192 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=10 ttl=242 time=276.960 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=11 ttl=242 time=292.803 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=12 ttl=242 time=311.045 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=13 ttl=242 time=332.706 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=14 ttl=242 time=252.888 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=15 ttl=242 time=276.615 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=16 ttl=242 time=300.284 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=17 ttl=242 time=323.336 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=18 ttl=242 time=239.557 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=19 ttl=242 time=263.243 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=20 ttl=242 time=286.847 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=21 ttl=242 time=309.631 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=22 ttl=242 time=331.001 ms
STOP
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=23 ttl=242 time=250.513 ms

64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=24 ttl=242 time=273.102 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=25 ttl=242 time=296.596 ms
END
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=26 ttl=242 time=313.879 ms
64 bytes from 208.75.184.192: icmp_seq=27 ttl=242 time=255.465 ms


I didn't know how to stop it so that's why it says STOP and END, it was me lol.

[Robbie]

traceroute -I bebo.com

on a mac.

[Nick.]

it's taking ages...

Nicks-MacBook:~ nicksj$ traceroute -I bebo.com
traceroute to bebo.com (208.75.184.192), 64 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 3.755 ms 0.847 ms 1.435 ms
2 10.8.201.1 (10.8.201.1) 47.736 ms 40.694 ms 39.919 ms
3 130.Red-81-46-41.staticIP.rima-tde.net (81.46.41.130) 41.484 ms 40.114 ms 40.940 ms
4 So5-0-0-0-grtmadad1.red.telefonica-wholesale.net (84.16.11.37) 53.905 ms * 53.153 ms
5 Xe5-1-0-0-grtmadno1.red.telefonica-wholesale.net (84.16.13.225) 53.956 ms Xe7-1-3-0-grtmadde2.red.telefonica-wholesale.net (84.16.13.210) 53.070 ms Xe7-1-1-0-grtmadde2.red.telefonica-wholesale.net (84.16.13.206) 53.418 ms
6 So6-3-0-0-grtlontl3.red.telefonica-wholesale.net (213.140.43.222) 83.884 ms So4-3-0-0-grtlontl3.red.telefonica-wholesale.net (84.16.12.122) 84.203 ms Xe0-3-0-0-grtlontc2.red.telefonica-wholesale.net (84.16.13.102) 87.079 ms
7 xe3-2-0-0-grtnycpt2.red.telefonica-wholesale.net (84.16.12.22) 149.639 ms 148.092 ms 149.801 ms
8 xe10-0-0-0-grtdaleq1.red.telefonica-wholesale.net (84.16.14.189) 202.769 ms 211.467 ms 204.548 ms
9 ge-1-3-6.mpr2.dfw2.us.above.net (64.125.13.141) 195.157 ms 195.455 ms 195.395 ms
10 so-1-1-0.mpr4.iah1.us.above.net (64.125.26.134) 190.956 ms 194.271 ms 186.574 ms
11 so-1-1-0.mpr4.lax9.us.above.net (64.125.25.18) 236.390 ms 267.023 ms 306.427 ms
12 so-0-0-0.mpr3.lax9.us.above.net (64.125.26.145) 307.371 ms 249.327 ms 314.821 ms
13 so-0-1-0.mpr1.sjc2.us.above.net (64.125.26.26) 307.190 ms 303.026 ms 307.350 ms
14 xe-1-1-0.er1.sjc2.us.above.net (64.125.26.198) 307.042 ms 306.572 ms 304.413 ms
15 xe-0-1-0.mpr3.sfo3.us.above.net (64.125.31.153) 309.954 ms 355.119 ms 307.379 ms
16 64.125.128.58.available.mfnx.net (64.125.128.58) 308.038 ms 306.091 ms 307.116 ms
17 www.bebo.com (208.75.184.192) 307.414 ms 306.564 ms 241.445 ms

[Nick.]

Right update on the situation. I started using OpenDNS but it sucked pretty bad and didn't help too much. I've started using Fedora in VMWare and it is working proper fast and back to normal. I'm downloading OpenSUSE (4GB urgh) because Fedora seems proper blurry and ugly even on native res.

It seems this is a problem with OS X and how it handles certain DNS address's and caches them. It's very inconveinient to have to run a VM but oh well.