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Ryan Williams wrote:

> I know this isn't the best place to ask this since it is more of a 
> networking issue, but maybe someone here will have a suggestion. I 
> have a home network set up using a NetGear wi-fi router. I have 
> several computers (various linux and mac OSX boxes) directly connected 
> to the router via Ethernet cables and then I access with my OSX 
> Powerbook using WiFi. This setup was working great with my old DSL 
> modem using the NetGear to dial-in via PPPoE. But the old modem 
> finally died and I had Earthlink send a new one. The new DSL modem has 
> it's own PPPoE software built in, so I configured the NetGear router 
> to connect to the modem using DHCP.
>
> After finally getting this setup to work, I noticed that it was taking 
> forever for any domains or email to resolve. The solution was to 
> manually add my ISP's DNS server IPs to the router and every computer. 
> While this did the trick for all the computers connected ditectly to 
> the router, I still have all kinds of weirdness using wi-fi with the 
> TiBook:
>
> 1) when checking IMAP mail using any client (Mail.app, Thunderbird, 
> etc.) I get time-outs after looking into 2 or 3 directories stored on 
> the server. It just locks up like it can't see the mail server any 
> more. Using an SSH tunnel to my local linux box doesn't help the 
> situation either.
>
> 2) Resolving domains is very sporadic. It seems to take about 30+ 
> seconds longer than normal.
>
> Like I said, this isn't an issue on any of the other computers 
> connected directly to the router regardless of platform... just the 
> Powerbook using wifi. Earthlink is of course pointing the the router 
> as the problem, and I can find no useful info about this from NetGear 
> or in any forums. It doesn't seem to be OS specific either since 
> everything works fine if I connect the Powerbook directly to the 
> router. Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ryan
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