Need a bit of help setting up a home network

Sparky_za

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Hi Guys

Currently setup is as follows. Billion 5210RCS ADSL Modem (192.168.0.1) configured to use Bridge mode and supplying DHCP. Connected via LAN port is a Netgear MBRN3000 Wireless Router (192.168.0.2). The 3G modem of the wireless router has been unplugged, nothing else special is programmed on either router. uPnP is activated on both routers and all clients are using wireless connections.

Problem I have is that sometimes DNS fails to resolve. According to DHCP received by the clients, DNS server is 192.168.0.1. Checking the ADSL modem, 2 DNS addresses are recieved via DHCP from Mweb for the ADSL connection.

Any suggestions? Should I program a static route in the Wireless router? Or should port forwarding rather be used in place of uPnP?
 
Try set the DNS server manually on one of the clients to be the DNS addresses recieved from MWEB so they do the resolution directly from the DNS servers instead of using the router to forward the requests.

uPNP and port forwarding will not affect DNS in your setup
 
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