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January 23rd, 2007 00:00

Cannot connect to specific website with new E1505

I purchased an Inspiron E1505 in early December. It runs XP Pro and I purchased the NetGear RangeMax Next Wireless-N Router at the same time. I have the new laptop and an old Inspiron 8100 attached to the wireless network.
 
I used the E1505 for a month and all was well. Then one day it would not access a specific website address that I access on a daily basis. I get the Page Cannot be Displayed message. This happens on both of the laptops. Neither can access the site. (BTW it is a university job site, nothing out of the ordinary) If I go to someone else's house or to my office and access the site it comes up fine. I contacted Dell Support, but all they did was mess with settings, remove IE7, install Mozilla/Firefox, disable all of my security (Trend Micro) and it still doesn't work. I wondered, since both laptops were unable to connect to the site, if it was a router problem. But the Dell rep said no.
 
Anybody out there got any ideas??? Thanks in advance!

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January 26th, 2007 09:00

Guess the old teacher was right about DNS. 
 
I was listening to a podcast this week that dealt with this same subject and I was surprised to learn that you could use an alternate DNS address (not your ISP's) as long as it was not being blocked.
 
 

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January 26th, 2007 11:00

This website has nothing else to do but look for DNS servers that are not picky about who they talk to.
 
 
I've seen several of these wireless routers with DNS problems lately ( I usually work the Hijackthis forum and people think it's spyware so they come to us there)  but this is the first time I got  what model they had.  Now I can start looking for netgear and see if it's just them.  The release notes on the firmware update don't say anything about DNS so I'm curious to see if they fixed the problem or not.
 
Ron
 
PS Had one the other day that I thought was DNS but it turned out to be he was trying to use IP Version 6.  Go figure.
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