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 09/03/2010 03:22:10 PM · #1
I am getting very frequent "cannot find the site" and long waits "looking for www..." while surfing the web. This has been off and on for months. I thought it was Comcasts DNS, so I switched my DNS to use google's free ones (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) and that seems to clear it up for awhile, but then it starts occurring again. I've switched back and forth and it's hard to tell what the problem is. Any ideas??
 09/03/2010 03:28:24 PM · #2
Have you tried changing internet browsers? Sometimes that can help.
 09/03/2010 03:30:14 PM · #3
Thanks - haven't tried that. I use Firefox almost exclusively. I'll try Chrome for awhile.
 09/03/2010 03:44:39 PM · #4
Yeh I'm on Chrome now and think it's great.
 09/03/2010 03:58:17 PM · #5
Your illegal porn sites are probably dodging to different servers quite often, and it takes DNS servers some time to update.
 09/03/2010 04:07:37 PM · #6
If you are wireless I have had similar problems especially after a thunderstorm. I just reset my modem and router and all is good until the next event.
 09/03/2010 04:08:36 PM · #7
Originally posted by kawesttex:
If you are wireless I have had similar problems especially after a thunderstorm. I just reset my modem and router and all is good until the next event.


eta: I'm with Comcast and maybe we just found a common link that it's not my wireless router but the modem.

eta: Good thing I can almost read the difference between Quote and Edit.

Message edited by author 2010-09-03 16:09:31.
 09/03/2010 04:10:07 PM · #8
I think it is a Comcast issue. It is frequent, but intermittent, so resetting the modem or anything else I do *appears* to resolve it, but very hard to tell.
 09/03/2010 04:10:43 PM · #9
Originally posted by kawesttex:
eta: Good thing I can almost read the difference between Quote and Edit.

Not your fault - I think that's a Comcast issue as well.
 09/03/2010 04:19:42 PM · #10
Good thing I can identify 'Report Post' though. :-)
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