DNS keeps getting lost

[John Warner]

I moved from ME to XP Home , which was fine .
Only thing is this IE 6.0, every couple of mins i lose contact with the DNS
servers.Sometime if i ping a DNS server they will come back 0% loss one
minute and the next IE "hangs" so go back to pinging and i get 100% loss.
Because of this i can't even download things , so moving to say "FIREFOX" is
out of the question.

I want to move things to DSL but when i had ME i use a DialUp account and
everything was fine then, i want to compare "Apples to Apples" so to speak.
If I've aready spoken to my ISP and elimiated them as the problem , they
said it was probably XP's setup.

Since there are smarter people on this newgroup then Microsoft could ever
have.

HELP !!!!!!!

20 days to validation and counting.....


John

 

[Guest]

I'm not sure what you mean when you say you lose contact with the DNS server,
you are not connected directly to a DNS server, if you have an internet
connection supplied by an ISP they will query the DNS server.

When you say you are pinging a DNS server what exactly are you typing ?

Andy W

 

[John Warner]

From a comand line i type ping 209.5.206.2 and if i'm connected i get a
ping back in milisec, if i'm disconnected i get "request timed out" as a
response.


John