NickTheGrip Posted December 6, 2010 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Share Posted December 6, 2010 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Hemps Posted December 6, 2010 Member ID: 1482 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 37 Topic Count: 120 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2018 Content Per Day: 0.40 Reputation: 1440 Achievement Points: 15303 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/05/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 15 Birthday: 07/13/1967 Device: Windows Share Posted December 6, 2010 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
TheLastColdBeer Posted December 6, 2010 Member ID: 489 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 548 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4671 Content Per Day: 0.87 Reputation: 5860 Achievement Points: 41078 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 14 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 6 hours ago Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted December 6, 2010 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......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
loaderXI Posted December 6, 2010 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 392 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6418 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 6495 Achievement Points: 54344 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 30 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 6 hours ago Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted December 6, 2010 Good looking out Nick im sure this will be a great help to many ...... Thanks for posting loADER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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