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Okay I saw in the papers again another double page advertisement saying Belmont (Gonzales, etc) was already to Blink. Is anyone in the Belmont area on Blink yet? Because im still only seeing ADSL G.DMT

Anyone else got any DNS problems today (Sun 2nd Dec)? I couldn't access any websites except tstt.net.tt today until just now. I could still download from the torrents that were loaded in my client though. Got to document those OpenDNS IPs somewhere!

For those who don't know DNS (Domain Name Server) is the server that converts the human-readable website names such as www.tstt.net.tt to the IP 196.3.132.8 which is used to find the exact loction of the website. When the ISP DNS is down, there is no way for you to access websites unless you know their IP.

OpenDNS https://www.opendns.com is a free DNS server which allows access and can be used as a 'backup' DNS or replace your current primary and secondary DNS.
Their current DNS servers are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220. See the instructions on their website for further details.

I copied this from another of my posts, but hopefully it could help some persons. I know some persons are saying they want to (and telling others) they should go with one ISP because they are offering 'guaranteed' bandwidth, while other cable technologies are using 'shared' bandwidth.

For starters, Flow, which is offering Cable internet access (says) it isn't using a text-book configuration for the cable connection from your house to the node. The node is the point where all the cable modem connections meet in the neighbourhood from everyone's house. They are incorporating fibre into that mesh (technically called the local loop), so it wouldn't really be shared in the neighbourhood. In light of that, it won't be (much) different from TSTT claiming about their 'guaranteed' bandwidth. It would have other differences though, but that would be a different topic! Back to this topic... the only 'guaranteed' bandwitdh these ISPs are talking about are between the user and the local node.

Just for clarification, guaranteed bandwitdh (with the offered packages) does NOT mean that the (total) bandwidth you are renting is specifically reservered for you. It just means that the data moving through the modem(or router) would be separate from other users data until it reaches the neighbourhood node.

I hope that isn't confusing, but here is an analogy which I hope can simplify it. Think of it this way: You live at your house, which is in a neighbourhood. To go out to anywhere, you always have to get on the highway. Imagine the highway is the internet. If you have 'guaranteed' bandwidth as say Blink, is advertising... what they are giving you is a private road DIRECTLY from your house to the highway. Only you can use that road. If you have 'shared' bandwidth, what you are getting is a public road when you get out of your house, on which all your other neighbours can also travel to get to the highway. In either case, no mater if you use a private road or a public road to get to the highway, there can still be (lots) of traffic on the highway where you would have to go to wait. Thefore having 'guaranteed' bandwidth would minimize your traffic in your neighbour when alot of your neighbours want to go out, but there would still be traffic (and hence waiting, and slow speeds) on the highway!

Hope that helps someone!

I know it's a simple question, but how do I do it? Because using the IPCONFIG only gives me my internal IP. I usually use those online IP lookup sites, but I want to know how I can find it out without going to them, the (Paradyne) router must have the WAN ip recorded somewhere right, I just can't find it.

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Now, doesn't 256Kbps sound small!