Major Comcast outage

[NickTheGrip]

If you know anyone who is affected by the major Comcast outage in the Midwest (Chicago, Indiana, most of Southern MI), it is a DNS service outage and can be bypassed by setting your DNS server numbers as follows:

 

Primary 8.8.8.8

Secondary 8.8.4.4

 

If you know anyone who is having this issue and can't get online even though it shows they have an internet connection, have them try this (assuming you have a different way to contact them)

 

To change DNS

XP

Go to Control Panel

double click on Network Connections

On your internet connection (LAN or wireless) right click and select properties

select "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) then click on Properties below it

Look towards the bottom and if not selected, click on "Use the following DNS Server addresses"

then input the numbers above and click on OK

 

In 7 (I think)

Click on your network connection on the bottom right of the taskbar

Click on "open Network Center"

Over on the left click on Adapter properties

Select "Internet Protocol (IPv4) and click on properties

Sames as the last step above

 

Hope this helps someone

 

BTW - Not sure what happened to the post title

It's supposed to say Major Comcast Outage

[Hemps]

I was wondering what was happening, couldnt get on firefox,AOL,explore,cod4-5-BO or any games. but could log into vent or TS and steam. but all seems good now ...whew...

[TheLastColdBeer]

Yeah, weird stuff. I was playing on the AceMod server and my wife was Christmas shopping on her computer. She couldn't display web pages and her internet connection went to local only. I was still connected (we use comcast cable through a router) but she was all done.....sorta, could still use skype. Spent about an hour trying restore points and hard booting routers. Oh well....went to bed earlier on a sunday night and put that time to better use.........

[loaderXI]

Good looking out Nick im sure this will be a great help to many ......

 

 

 

 

Thanks for posting

loADER