[HLUG] Router

[tim spivey]

Using the Google public DNS servers did help a bit,  8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
On 6 Aug 2014 07:06, "tim spivey" <tim.spivey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Julian
>
> The issues you have sound very familiar and remind me why I got rid of the
> ISP supplied router.
>
> Tim
> On 5 Aug 2014 23:01, "Julian Robbins" <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tim
>>
>> I've been aware of DD-WRT for a long while but never tried it.
>>
>> But I have had odd repeatable issues with very slow downloading of images,
>> where the images on a webpage hold up the rendering of the whole page
>> massively. Download times are ok, but theres something odd going on.
>>
>> Perhaps I'll try DD-WRT or another router at some point.
>>
>> Julian
>>
>>
>> On 5 August 2014 21:13, tim spivey <tim.spivey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello all
>> >
>> > Sorry I have not made any recent meetings, but thought you may be
>> > interested in what I have been up to.
>> >
>> > I installed DD-WRT on my router.  It is an open source firmware that
>> > gets more out of the router, I specifically did it as TalkTalk now
>> > provide a few Internet streaming TV channels which stopped working
>> > when I ditched the router (Huawei HG 533) they supplied in place for a
>> > fairly cheap Netgear WNR2000v2. The Netgear seems to handle DNS better
>> > and surfing the Web is now an a lot more pleasurable experience.
>> > These Internet TV channels not working did annoy me a bit though, I
>> > found out it was due to the Firewall in the router blocking Multicast
>> > 'signals'.  There was no way to remedy this using stock firmware but
>> > installing DD-WRT gave me a lot more options and it was very easy to
>> > enable Multicast. http://www.dd-wrt.com/
>> >
>> > Tim
>> >
>> > PS The Linux Voice (the new name for Linux Format (I think)) do a
>> > really good podcast
>> >
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