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Over the last few weeks I have been getting more and more "page can not be displayed" errors. At the bottom of the page it says "Server not found or DNS error." Now I do computers for a living, so let's not discuss the obvious. There were no problems to speak of before 2009, now the problem has been getting worse and worse. The Verizon support folks were not helpful, of course they tried to blame me for the problem. No changes on my side though during that time, just increasing and increasing "page can not be displayed" errors. If you refresh a few times, they get found of course and it seems to come in batches, meaning if things are smooth, they are smooth, if one page can not be displayed error shows up, lots occur at the same time.
I am at the point where I am going to stop paying for my service and then go elsewhere. I'd like to keep FIOS, but its becoming too much of a problem to stay.
Any ideas?
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No, no P2P and no specializations on the router. There is a Wii attached. The Nintendo DS's won't attach with the ActionTec, never have. The house has been working fine until the last month.
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If it is really the Verizon DNS servers, you could try using OpenDNS, which is free. I switched to OpenDNS months ago, not for the problem you are experiencing but because the Verizon DNS seemed to have gotten very slow. Switching to OpenDNS seemed to improve DNS performance quite a bit. Plus some security sites say that OpenDNS updates their servers better than most ISPs, and have some tools to help manage spam and viruses.
Trying OpenDNS would at least eliminate Verizon DNS if the problem continues.
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Verizon FiOS TV, Internet, and phone
IMG 1.6.0, Build 06.89
Keller, TX 76248
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I've read about solving DNS problems with opendns or treewalk. I'd like to use straight verizon, somewhat because I'm concerned that using something else might impact the FIOS TV and FIOS phone (I'm a triple play customer). I know that these things shouldn't affect the other services, but I'm still leary. Things were working fairly well in December and January and then changed in February, so I'm thinking that something must have changed at Verizon in February 2009. Has there been any changes at Verizon FIOS during Feb 2009? I'm in the Pittsburgh area.
Thank you for the suggestion though.
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@RandomJoe wrote:I'd like to use straight verizon, somewhat because I'm concerned that using something else might impact the FIOS TV and FIOS phone (I'm a triple play customer).
I have the triple play, absolutely no effect on my phone or TV from using OpenDNS, just better internet website access. I suggested OpenDNS because you said you thought it might be DNS related, this would be an easy way to determine whether that is what it is or not. If it did turn out to be Verizon's DNS, you would then have some ammunition to go to Verizon tech support with.
Just my $.02 worth....
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Verizon FiOS TV, Internet, and phone
IMG 1.6.0, Build 06.89
Keller, TX 76248
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