rik, can you take a look here please ?

Dont mention Talk Talk !! · Jan 30, 2008, 01:18:27

http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=idnet&Number=3251309&page=0&view=expanded&sb=5&o=0

what are your thoughts rik ?

James

Lance · Jan 30, 2008, 08:24:40

My thought is that whatever it is causing his stale sessions, it's not IDNet. It's possible that BT have been doing some work at his exchange, or just as likely that it is indeed his router causing the problems.

Rik · Jan 30, 2008, 09:45:20

I'm with Lance, James. If the maintenance was causing stale sessions, we'd have heard about it. I only know of one, so unless there's an exchange thought, I'd be looking at the router. Personally, I've never rated D-Link that highly.

lmartin · Jan 30, 2008, 09:46:44

Not a big fan of D-Link kit myself. Indeed, in my previous job I found them to be quite problematic. Netgear all the way for me! (And some Belkin Kit is decent)

MoHux · Jan 30, 2008, 16:24:07

and the other side of the coin .......... I use a DLink DSL 524T ....... always rock solid, never varies!!

lmartin · Jan 30, 2008, 16:32:53

Well, there are two sides to every coin! (Or should that be three sides?)

MoHux · Jan 30, 2008, 16:50:56

I don't give a toss really!!

Rik · Jan 30, 2008, 16:55:10

MoHux · Jan 30, 2008, 17:30:38

Good ole Rik. At least you ~~always~~, usually, laugh at my jokes!!

Dont mention Talk Talk !! · Jan 30, 2008, 19:25:12

I opted to search the idnet site itself and it suggests that their primary and secondary dns addresses can be used so as to avoid over filling the dns cache and thus avoiding the propensity for creation of stale sessions.

I got the 2 dns addresses from idnet support and the machine is working just fine.

what do you think of this course of action ive taken as it relates to the issue i posted about ?

James

Rik · Jan 30, 2008, 19:34:09

I just have the router auto-detect the DNS servers, James, it's always worked fine for me. The only time I enter them manually is if I switch to OpenDNS for testing.

Dont mention Talk Talk !! · Jan 30, 2008, 19:52:00

I wonder if its just something particular to the dsl 504t router rik. my brother who works in pc hardware told me it aint the greatest router in the world but it gets the basics done. he seemed to think using the idnet dns servers would be a remedy, the guy i spoke to at idnet support said it would be more efficient too.

James

Lance · Jan 30, 2008, 20:03:20

I've also only ever used the IDNet servers