"Looking Up/Contacting" Slow when switching between webpages.

[Sebby]

Everything is virtually instant here.

[alan]

Gone back to Auto and no more of this "looking up" for me either. Is it better to leave on auto or manually put IDNets numbers in them?
Thanks.
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Regards

[DeViTTo]

Everything is virtually instant here.

So on this basis is it now time to switch back to IDnets dns settings?

[Lance]

So on this basis is it now time to switch back to IDnets dns settings?

Judging by the other responses, yes it is

Gone back to Auto and no more of this "looking up" for me either. Is it better to leave on auto or manually put IDNets numbers in them?
Thanks.
.
Regards

It shouldn't make any difference, but you might as well leave them as manual

[alan]

Thanks Lance.. Running smooth in Auto still.

[Steve]

Simon@idnet gave the DNS in the reverse order was that delibrate or were they just simply listed?

[Rik]

Probably just a typo as the advice has been to use them in reverse order.

[Sebby]

I'm sorry to report that the problem has not disappeared for me. A link here on IDNetters just took about 10 seconds to display, whilst subsequent clicks are instant. I'm wondering if it's confined to this site? I'm not sure I've noticed it on others.

[Lance]

I've not noticed it at all... 

[Rik]

I'm sorry to report that the problem has not disappeared for me. A link here on IDNetters just took about 10 seconds to display, whilst subsequent clicks are instant. I'm wondering if it's confined to this site? I'm not sure I've noticed it on others.

The forum has a little go-slow from time to time, with pages taking 3-10 seconds to load. The problem is that it's not showing on the server logs, and it doesn't relate to loading in the forum, eg I've seen it when just four members are present.

[Sebby]

I'm not 100% it's the forum, Rik - I do spend a lot of my online time here, though, so it just dawned on me that it could be the forum, so I'm keeping an eye out now.

[Rik]

What I do, when I think the forum is on a go slow, is to open a separate tab on the BBC news site. If that's OK, the forum's having a moment. Unless it's lunchtime, of course.

[Sebby]

Thanks, Rik.

[Collie]

Hmm, at the risk at sounding like someone never having used the internet or a PC before (which isn't the case honest!), after changing my DNS servers to look up Open DNS instead of the usual IDNET ones, I'm now unable to figure out how to check out my router status which I could previously do by typing in routerlogin.com . I have a Netgear router and that's the address it uses to mess around with my router settings. Now I merely get the Netgear site. Any idea how I can access my router control panel again? I apologise if it's obvious to all, only it's been a long night and I'm currently oblivious to obvious ideas. Cheers.

[Sebby]

Hi Collie, this happens because you have assigned DNS' manually in Windows, so the router doesn't deal with the request to open routerlogin.com, OpenDNS does. Of course, because the router doesn't deal with it, it'll actually take you to the site, rather than the router's configuration page.

To get onto the router, therefore, you'll just need to type in its IP address instead of routerlogin.com, which is probably 192.168.0.1.

If you particularly want to get around this problem and continue to use routerlogin.com, you'll need to set Windows back to automatically get the DNS server address automatically from the router, then edit the DNS' on the router itself to use OpenDNS, rather than the ones it gets from the ISP.

I hope this helps.

[Collie]

Yea I knew the reasoning behind it, just couldn't find the address or setting I needed to get back to the router's control panel/page. That's done the job.

Cheers.

[Sebby]

NP.

[kinmel]

You could also add the following entry to the file C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
and after that it will resolve to you router.

192.168.0.1     routerlogin.com

[Sebby]

Good point.