MWEB DNS Servers

[ixian]

I have a ADSL connection with Telkom and MWEB is my service provider.

I am having major hassles with pages loading from international sites like Google Tools and most other sites. The page loads 98% and then seems to lose the connection, no matter how long you wait the page never loads comppletely. When clicking on an internal link, on one of these international pages, I some times have to open and close the the new page several times for it to load at all.

I have cleared my cache, cookies etc. and even took the drastic step of reformatting my hard drive and reloading windows. The problem occurs in Explorer 7 as well as Firefox.

Dealing with MWEB support has not been successful in sorting this problem out as they imply the problem is on my side.

The DNS servers that I am using are:

Primary - 196.43.34.190
Alternate - 196.43.46.190

I would really appreciate some advice in sorting this crap out.

 

[kevinswan007]

i dont think its mweb, i have used mweb for a while, and no problems.

best way of testing would be to borrow a friends, or buy a 1 gig pre-paid and test it out.

I think the problem, if anything, lies with your adsl line.

You could also maybe try your mweb account on a friends adsl line and pc.

 

[czotos]

Try these DNS servers...

Primary = 196.25.1.11
Secondary = 196.43.1.11

 

[ixian]

Try these DNS servers...

Primary = 196.25.1.11
Secondary = 196.43.1.11

Thanks, tried but no luck.

 

[magneto]

list of SAIX DNS servers
use ones cloesest to your location.

wbs-ip-dns-4.saix.net 196.43.34.190 Cape Town Distributed Recursive Caching only DNS
rrba-ip-dns-4.saix.net 196.43.38.190 Rosebank Distributed Recursive Caching only DNS
rndf-ip-dns-4.saix.net 196.43.42.190 Johannesburg Distributed Recursive Caching only DNS
tpr-ip-dns-4.saix.net 196.43.45.190 Pretoria Distributed Recursive Caching only DNS
wblv-ip-dns-4.saix.net 196.43.46.190 Cape Town Distributed Recursive Caching only DNS
tbnb-ip-dns-4.saix.net 196.43.50.190 Pretoria Distributed Recursive Caching only DNS
ndn-ip-dns-4.saix.net 196.43.53.190 Durban Distributed Recursive Caching only DNS
nngy-ip-dns-4.saix.net 196.43.54.190 Durban Distributed Recursive Caching only DNS

 

[zamrg]

It doesn't really sound like a DNS issue since you can resolve the addresses to ip's just fine?

It sounds similar to a problem I had a while back where I had trouble accessing certain pages, especially SSL pages. I was experiencing random packet loss which was being caused by too much data being sent through a single packet. A bit of googling lead me to fix my PPPOE MTU setting to 1492. I'm not sure why it was different in the first place as it should be set by default for dialup, but anyhow, it fixed the problem.

I'd recommend installing WireShark, a packet sniffer/network protocol analyzer. It will show you all the bad packets/fragments being sent and received. You can get the latest version from http://media-2.cacetech.com/wireshark/win32/wireshark-setup-1.0.7.exe