Odd WiFi problem- is there an easy/obvious fix?

[Barchettaman]

Morning all,

Our wifi is letting our wireless devices connect to Google and The Guardian, but nothing else (at least, no other websites that I have tried so far).

Any ideas? I’ve tried unplugging/waiting a few minutes/restarting the router, but no joy.

Thanks in advance.

[jackofall84]

Almost sounds lit like it might be a domain name issue?

[Captain_Morgan]

Do a n. s. lookup (remove the . & spaces- you get a 403 forbidden error on this forum without them) up a failing url, if it resolves okay it’s likely a routing issue with your isp, you could try a traceroute to the failing url to see at what point the packets drop.

If it didn’t resolve try a alternate dns server in your routers setup

Edited by Captain_Morgan on Monday 26th September 12:56

[CarCrazyDad]

Barchettaman said:

Morning all,

Our wifi is letting our wireless devices connect to Google and The Guardian, but nothing else (at least, no other websites that I have tried so far).

Any ideas? I’ve tried unplugging/waiting a few minutes/restarting the router, but no joy.

Thanks in advance.

Sounds like a DNS issue or a local browswer issue

Is it occuring to all devices? Or just one

Can you use command

"ping www.pistonheads.com"

You should get a response from an IP address. If you do, try browsing to the IP address
If not then you have a DNS issue.


Pinging pistonheads.com [108.156.46.8] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 108.156.46.8: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=248
Reply from 108.156.46.8: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=248
Reply from 108.156.46.8: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=248
Reply from 108.156.46.8: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=248

[Barchettaman]

Thanks all, will give that a try