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For the last two weeks I have struggled to access the majority of websites through Orange home broadband. I have managed to run a speed test which came out fine.
After multiple calls to orange I am nowhere. However, in one of the calls it was suggested I disconnect and reconnect my router until I obtain an IP address beginning:
95.145.173.xxx
Sure enough, once i have an address in this range I can browse all sites. Normally the ip address assigned is:
95.145.55.xxx
which causes the problem.
The last call I made to Orange they claimed they didn't know what was wrong and need to send an engineer out. Bonkers!
Has anyone else had this problem? Disconnecting and reconnecting the router hoping for a lucky IP seems like total madness to me...
Cheers,
Rick
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I had similar problems last week: http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/freeserve/t/4069496... . But I'm on Orange WBC (IP is 2.26......) not IP Stream that you are.
Try changing your DNSs in the router to OpenDNS : 208.67.222.222 & 208.67.220.220.
Can't believe that a change of IP would fix it other than by coincidence.
1999: Freeserve 48K Dial-Up => 2005: Wanadoo 1 Meg BB => 2007: Orange 2 Meg BB => 2008: Orange 8 Meg LLU => 2010: Orange 16 Meg LLU => 2011: Orange 19 Meg WBC
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I've tried OpenDNS and Google DNS servers, both still have the same issue.
I've tested changing the IP range, it definitely makes a difference,
anything in 95.145.55.xxx - issues with browsing
when on 95.145.173.xxx - everything is ok.
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Hi, for Orange have you set your router MTU: 1492
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If the sites are https based then a common problem is that the MTU discovery may be broke over that part of the network, so tweaking MTU at your end can sometimes get around the issue
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Hi,
I thought that too, the MTU is set to 1492 by default - I even tried some lower MTU's to see if that fixed it but sadly, no...
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No - I'll give that a shot, cheers!
In the meantime, orange have just phoned me and are sending out an engineer so I guess I'll find out what the problem is then - although they have admitted it's likely a problem at the exchange so not sure what the engineer can do...
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Just a wee update, Orange finally phoned to say they accept the problem is with them and I'm not the only user affected. Was starting to go mad....
This after 15-20 phonecalls and two engineer visits. Pah.
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