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582n - very sluggish today

David_W
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582n - very sluggish today

I have no idea why but today the router is being very slow, taking several seconds to load a web page up, speed tests show my speeds are still high (7.5mb).  I changed the DNS settings in Windows to OpenDNS and Google and now web pages load up quickly again.
Now, an nslookup also brings interesting results:
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C:\Users\David>nslookup community.plus.net
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
Server:  UnKnown
Address:  2a02:16c8:2000:f00::
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to UnKnown timed-out

So for some reason my PC is only looking at the IPV6 DNS server to try and resolve a domain name, but:
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C:\Users\David>tracert community.plus.net
Tracing route to community.plus.net [212.159.8.110]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

Anyone know how to change DNS servers on the actual router?
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mattturner
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Re: 582n - very sluggish today

Hi David,
You can follow this post here, the steps should be very similar but I'm not sure what effect the IPv6 address will have on the commands you'll need to run.
http://community.plus.net/library/dns/how-to-change-the-default-dns-servers-in-a-thomson-speedtouch-...
Let me know how you get on.
Matt
brueton
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Re: 582n - very sluggish today

May have had the same thing happen to my 582n a couple of days ago. Very slow loading pages on my smartphone. No time to investigate and it seemed to have sorted itself out when I got home a few hours later.
PeteB
David_W
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Re: 582n - very sluggish today

Those instructions did work for the router, I have PN as primary and OpenDNS as secondary, wanted google as 3rd but doesn't look like that is supported.  Tried adding 2620:0:ccc::2 but it rejected it as an invalid IPV4 address which suggests it's possible to add IPV6 dns servers in there too.
Today (and yesterday I think) I had an issue where it's been losing connection with the exchange:
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Dec 29 21:14:36 xDSL linestate up (ITU-T G.992.5; downstream: 11585 kbit/s, upstream: 440 kbit/s; output Power Down: 20.7 dBm, Up: 12.9 dBm; line Attenuation Down: 33.0 dB, Up: 13.1 dB; snr Margin Down: 6.1 dB, Up: 31.2 dB)

Dec 29 21:14:31 PPP link down (Internet) [x.x.x.x]

Dec 29 21:14:09 xDSL linestate down

Dec 29 21:13:49 FIREWALL event (1 of 1): modified rules

Dec 29 21:13:49 FIREWALL event (1 of 1): created rules

Dec 29 21:13:49 xDSL linestate down

Although that could be me, it's just noticable as I have to queue again to get into SWTOR  Cry