What's A Gateway?

[mommysboy]

Hope this makes sense and someone can help.

My internet has always been erratic and mainly slow but for over a week I have been unable to upload single items or perform revisions on Ebay due to one page malfunctioning, from both my apartment which has a communal wi-fi, and my favourite internet cafe which uses TRUE. I managed to raise the subject with the cafe owner and he was aware of it. He went to internet connection properties and retyped a pair of numbers, and sure enough no problem anymore. I asked him what he'd done and he said he'd changed the gateway, as he has 2 (possibly more) and he said it was also a problem with hi5, and that it only happened with TRUE.

It's not a disaster as I can use Auctiva which is an adjunct, or a turbo lister prog.

But that still leaves me stuck at the apartment for single item listing. What do I need to do? and anybody know what I need to ask for in Thai? I don't even know what a gateway is, so an idiot's explanation is the order of the day if poss.

[A_Traveller]

What he probably did was change the DNS [the link to the computers on the internet which convert the name of a site to a number which the internet understands]. A common suggestion is to use OpenDNS as an alternative. If you visit their site there are step by step instructions [even a video I think] to help you change and leave True's wayward 'gateway'.

HTH

Regards

Open DNS Link

Edited June 26, 2009 by A_Traveller

[mommysboy]

What he probably did was change the DNS [the link to the computers on the internet which convert the name of a site to a number which the internet understands]. A common suggestion is to use OpenDNS as an alternative. If you visit their site there are step by step instructions [even a video I think] to help you change and leave True's wayward 'gateway'.

HTH

Regards

Open DNS Link

Thanks.

Indeed he did just that. As I remember it was the bottom line configuration and last set of numbers.

I'll check it out.

'Open DNS' means no numbers at all I take it!

[RKASA]

No opendns is a web site that does the resolve name to ip address for you.

208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

when you type whatever.com it turns it in an address a PC can use.  ISP's have dns servers also but sometimes they are not working like they should

when blank and auto is used the isp picks the dns i.e. thiers and thats not what you want here.

@ the cafe they may have more then one adsl connection they could have switched modems that part of the network was talking to.

Edited June 27, 2009 by RKASA

[mommysboy]

No opendns is a web site that does the resolve name to ip address for you.

208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

when you type whatever.com it turns it in an address a PC can use. ISP's have dns servers also but sometimes they are not working like they should

when blank and auto is used the isp picks the dns i.e. thiers and thats not what you want here.

@ the cafe they may have more then one adsl connection they could have switched modems that part of the network was talking to.

Thank you for that very useful and well written answer.

[mommysboy]

No opendns is a web site that does the resolve name to ip address for you.

208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

when you type whatever.com it turns it in an address a PC can use. ISP's have dns servers also but sometimes they are not working like they should

when blank and auto is used the isp picks the dns i.e. thiers and thats not what you want here.

@ the cafe they may have more then one adsl connection they could have switched modems that part of the network was talking to.

Thank you for that very useful and well written answer.

I did all that. I believe the advice I've been given is really good, but alas no joy. I think it's the "Thai factor".

TRUE seems to come up as part of the poor equation time and again.

Is it possible they are at fault, perhaps they have their own firewall which isn't tweeked right.

In the cafe today I couldn't even sign in to hotmail without the same 'read error' message.

[mommysboy]

No opendns is a web site that does the resolve name to ip address for you.

208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

when you type whatever.com it turns it in an address a PC can use. ISP's have dns servers also but sometimes they are not working like they should

when blank and auto is used the isp picks the dns i.e. thiers and thats not what you want here.

@ the cafe they may have more then one adsl connection they could have switched modems that part of the network was talking to.

Thank you for that very useful and well written answer.

I did all that. I believe the advice I've been given is really good, but alas no joy. I think it's the "Thai factor".

TRUE seems to come up as part of the poor equation time and again.

Is it possible they are at fault, perhaps they have their own firewall which isn't tweeked right.

In the cafe today I couldn't even sign in to hotmail without the same 'read error' message.

No joy solving it with the cafe owner over the weekend. He knew opendsn but it didn't solve his problem. So he has 2 gateways, one works and the other doesn't, when both should be identical.

I suppose that sums up Thailand.

It seems to me there is some critical problem with Thai internet.

Back at my apartment I've started to get access denied even with the Daily Mail. I wonder whether this Thai firewall is a major hurdle.

[webfact]

No opendns is a web site that does the resolve name to ip address for you.

208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

when you type whatever.com it turns it in an address a PC can use. ISP's have dns servers also but sometimes they are not working like they should

when blank and auto is used the isp picks the dns i.e. thiers and thats not what you want here.

@ the cafe they may have more then one adsl connection they could have switched modems that part of the network was talking to.

Thank you for that very useful and well written answer.

I did all that. I believe the advice I've been given is really good, but alas no joy. I think it's the "Thai factor".

TRUE seems to come up as part of the poor equation time and again.

Is it possible they are at fault, perhaps they have their own firewall which isn't tweeked right.

In the cafe today I couldn't even sign in to hotmail without the same 'read error' message.

No joy solving it with the cafe owner over the weekend. He knew opendsn but it didn't solve his problem. So he has 2 gateways, one works and the other doesn't, when both should be identical.

I suppose that sums up Thailand.

It seems to me there is some critical problem with Thai internet.

Back at my apartment I've started to get access denied even with the Daily Mail. I wonder whether this Thai firewall is a major hurdle.

You hit the nail on the head!!!

[mommysboy]

The internet was like this 5 years ago, and I bet it will be the same in another 5.

Still I learn more.

And one of the things I've learned (learnt) is to find alternatives.

But, what a cr8p state of affairs!