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Thread ID: 68915 2006-05-15 10:04:00 Internet problems tonight Greg (193) PC World Chat
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455024 2006-05-15 10:44:00 Xtra dial-up service here in Northland is pretty much cr..cr..undesirable. NZ sites load slow and anything overseas is out of the question. Can't even get on to the Xtra site.

Online games are working ok though :P
Catweazle (2535)
455025 2006-05-15 10:46:00 What primary DNS server should be used? Mine are set to automatic and I don't know what Xtra's are.

Xtra's primary DNS server is
202.27.184.3

Set the secondary DNS server to Telstraclear's
203.96.152.4
yzhu (9783)
455026 2006-05-15 10:53:00 Xtra did some changes to their DNS earlier this year. Xtra Primary is 202.27.158.40
and Secondary is 202.27.156.72 .
PaulD (232)
455027 2006-05-15 11:00:00 I liked Xtra's 'no known faults currently' on their site...
I like that its said that since the bginning of April when half the country suddenly got faster broadband and the other half got worse broadband. But obviously that isn't a major problem...
pctek (84)
455028 2006-05-15 11:01:00 It's not just DNS - services that don't require any name resolution (i.e. direct connections to an IP) are also intermittant. The XTRA phone tech seemed pretty clueless...

PaulD - you're right, but the old servers are still running, and generally work better than the new ones. Possibly due to less load.
Erayd (23)
455029 2006-05-15 11:05:00 Set the secondary DNS server to Telstraclear's 203.96.152.4
That's a relief, we had a brief power outage earlier tonight, just enought to make the UPS drop in and out, then after that I had no Internet.

Since then I have gone through all the diagnostic brouhaha including rebooting my router and having to re-enter all the settings. Finally hooked up the laptop on freenet dialup to check PF1 and found that it was Xtra all along!

You'd think I would have learned by now to make PF1 my first stop. :groan:

Back on Jetstream now, courtesy of Telstra Clear, and my goodness the net is faster without all of those other users hogging the BW! :D

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
Billy T (70)
455030 2006-05-15 11:11:00 PaulD - you're right, but the old servers are still running, and generally work better than the new ones. Possibly due to less load.

What are the old Xtra DNS servers???
stu161204 (123)
455031 2006-05-15 11:12:00 What primary DNS server should be used? Mine are set to automatic and I don't know what Xtra's are.

From: xtra.co.nz

# Primary DNS is 202.27.158.40
# The Secondary DNS is 202.27.156.72

Hope this helps :)
stu161204 (123)
455032 2006-05-15 11:14:00 You'd think I would have learned by now to make PF1 my first stop . :groan:

haha hehe :D


Back on Jetstream now, courtesy of Telstra Clear, and my goodness the net is faster without all of those other users hogging the BW! :D

:confused: Do you mean all those other Xtra users?
stu161204 (123)
455033 2006-05-15 11:20:00 What are the old Xtra DNS servers???

202.27.184.3, and (I think) 202.27.184.4.

Update on XTRA: PPP connection keeps failing, but connection to the exchange is fine. Telstra DNS is excellent. Both the new and old XTRA DNS servers are having problems.
Erayd (23)
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