my wifi is down help

[Lord Bowser]

whenever I'm connected to my home wifi, I get a "DNS lookup failed" error on every site I go to. I've reset my router like 5 times and it won't fix it. what do I do now?

 

[Dardy]

Click windows button --- type cmd --- on the shortcut, right click and Run as Admin -- type ipconfig /flushdns press enter



click windows button --- Control panel --- under Network and Internet click View network status and tasks -- upper left click change adapter settings -- right click on your connection, Local area connection is if you're wired, Wireless Network Connection if wireless --- click Properties -- click to highlight Internet Protocol Version 4 --- click Properties button -- click Use the following DNS server addresses and in the boxes type 208.67.222.222 as Preferred and 208.67.220.220 as Alternate -- click OK, Close and close network connections -- reboot your computer and try it.



Those 2 things flushed all DNS entries in your DNS cache and then we changed the default DNS servers to OpenDNS servers, some of the best out there. Report back what happens for you.

I tried this one before myself, and it worked.

 

[fantanoice]

I usually use 8.8.8.8 then 8.8.4.4 because those are Google's but Shaggy's should work as well

 

[Dardy]

you can also use 199.85.126.10 and 199.85.127.10 as supplied by norton. They actually stop a lot of infected sites. A good chunk of them, but not all unfortunately.