| Quote from: robcr |
| Done but still no connection available. |
Do you mean that you cannot contact the forums using a dial up connection, or do you mean that you have set up OpenDNS in your router?
If it is the latter it verifies my earlier claim that if you can ping the domain in question your problem is not DNS related.
| Quote from: robcr |
| Do you think it's worth raising a ticket with Plusnet or contacting Netgear? |
No, unless you are keen to waste your time.
| Quote from: robcr |
I've since done a hard reset of my router too.
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That was unecessary, but it won't cause any harm (as long as you have not introduced potential faults by altering the router configuration).
Now check that you can ping the site in question without getting packet fragmentation:
ping -f -l 1475 www.clan-ts.com
Reduce the packet size from 1475 in steps of 10 bytes at a time, until you get a reply from the server. Then start going up in steps of 1 byte at a time, until you find the size at which fragmentation starts to occur. Use the maximum packet size at which you can get a reply and add 28 to derive the MTU size (e.g. if you find that you get a reply at a maximum size of 1452 bytes and no more, then 1452+28=1480; i.e. your MTU should be set at 1480 instead of the MSWindows default of 1500). Then set your router and your PC at that MTU size (for your PC use something
like DrTCP or modify
your registry).
Hopefully, you should then be able to access the site. If you still cannot access it there is a possibility that for some reason the server firewall has blacklisted your address - ask the server admin to check their firewall logs.
HTH.
