new internet isn't half annoying... [+REP

[Ardemax]

right so im with orange now for broadband and calls because sky in my area is useless

i installed the router and everything checked out ok

however whenever im online everything takes ages to load and every now and again it will cut out

and the 4 bars in the taskbar will have a little yellow "!" on them but with no explanation

when i run the troubleshoot thing, nothing is discovered and nothing is suggested

any ideas on what to do? when the web page loads it either goes on about the DNS not being able to "look-up" (or something) or the page won't display because it might have moved address. (i highly doubt facebook would change its address anytime soon)

any suggestions will be given sum reps!!!!!

fanx and goodbye

[Jack!]

Try public DNS

2.2.2.2

[Ardemax]

i tried 8.8.8.8 but i don't think i did it right

people were telling me to do the local area connection when i had a wireless one and enter that as the DNS settings

can you shed some light on how to do it? ty

[Oleh]

Get rid of the livebox, 'nuff said.

[Recursion]

http://techie-buzz.com/how-to/google-public-dns-on-win7-and-winxp.html

Explains how, but right click your wireless connection, not the LAN one.

[Ardemax]

also i got some screenshots showing what the connection is like

http://i54.tinypic.com/2cnvxhv.png

http://i55.tinypic.com/28u6wsj.png

http://i54.tinypic.com/1zwkl93.png

also the internet is hideously slow, uploading those 3 images took like 10 mins

any thoughts? :}

[Recursion]

Sent: 0

You have a bigger issue, not sure where, I've not seen 0 on sent before, only received.

[james,]

its a problem for my brother as well, so your helping him by this as well :L

[Ardemax]

it's weird, sometimes webpages take like 20 secs to load and some take like 2 mins :S

[peteyt]

My internet is like that at the moment but I think it could be my pc. My connection seems to drop all of a sudden often just for me. Probably security setting for myself but if it's for everyone on your network I'm not sure.

[Recursion]

it's weird, sometimes webpages take like 20 secs to load and some take like 2 mins :S

It's your computer, if the Sent Bytes are at 0, something is really wrong, even if a computer isn't connected to a network you should have a number by Sent Bytes.

[Ardemax]

its sending packets now, but its really weird and i dont know why that happened the first time

also whenever someone is on the local only connection downstairs (the pc connected directly to the router) there is no wireless access :S

this is annoying. fair play.