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Really Simple ? : No router, change DNS svr, fail. Why?
I am not well trained in internet architecture. I made a simple change that should have "just worked" but instead resulted in no service to the Internet, which I imagine was caused by inability to reach the DNS servers I specified. Here's detail:
- Couldn't be simpler: in a home, the users have Spectrum as ISP, and a single lone Cable Modem. There is one desktop running windows 7 connected by Ethernet cable. All working well.
- Due to some iterative lag in internet response, I wondered changing to specific DNS server config at the workstation would help speed any.
- opened the NIC Properties and accessed the IPv4 settings, from Obtain-Automatically to "Use the following" and punched in the Google DNS server addresses. I triple checked my syntax, ticked the 'verify' box and backed out. The servers checked out ok.
- but there was no Internet access at all.
- I rebooted. Still nothing.
What I did not do was power off the Cable Modem to get a new lease. Would that have resolved the issue?
pls explain why this was a problemo
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