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Monday, December 03, 2007
Charter DNS
I got home from work today to find my Charter internet connection down ... again.
This time, however, was a little different than several outages I've experienced over the last couple months ... my router was actually being assigned an IP via DHCP. I did a search for an alternate DNS provider on my iPhone, and am now a user of OpenDNS service.
So - next time your internet connection is gone but your computer appears to have an IP - try changing your router DNS servers to the following:
1. 208.67.222.222
2. 208.67.220.220
In the longer term, I wish we'd get something like FIOS here in Minnesota, but as of now there are few low latency, high speed internet choices in town, so I'll be sticking with Charter. At least now I have a simple, free alternative to Charter's flaky DNS service.
Comments
Comment posted by 
: 5:21 AM - permalink
I live near Atlanta, GA and I'm on Charter Communications. This weekend, I started noticing high latency on DNS lookups through Charter. Then, I mistyped an URL and got some BS charter.net 404 page with ads and Yahoo Search. I promptly changed my DNS servers in my router to OpenDNS, but still have slow lookups and Charter's 404 hijack. This really blows.
Comment posted by
Anonymous : 5:34 AM - permalink
Hey Nathan, I faced a similar problem with Comcast a while ago and moved on to a Recursive Service by NeuStar. You can apply the following IP's under the router settings:
156.154.70.1
156.154.71.1