[iWonder]

I am using
- SIEMENS SL2_141 modem for my DSL connection. (also use Linksys WRT54G)
- Macintosh OSX 10.5 on Macbook Pro


Till yesterday I used to manually dial to my ISP i.e I had a bridged connection. Recently I made the modem to dial it by itself, so that it connects by itself. But now most of the sites takes lot of time to start opening stating "Looking up www.domain..." and it takes a while before it actually opens and some take more than one request i.e in the first try the browser will give a not found and on the retry it works fine.

I am having this problem when I make the external modem/router to dial it. It doesnt have any such delay issue when I manually dial it from the mac through the same router to the same ISP.

Any fix for this ?

[Big Mac]

DSL modems don't dial up. That's what conventional "dial-up" modems do. When you say dial do you mean connect through PPPoE? Does the lookup slowness continue after you've connected to the ISP? I have never had a problem with using a router to connect through PPPoE. What you are describing sounds less like an authentication issue and more like a DNS issue. If that's the case, try OpenDNS instead of your ISPs servers. Let us know more and we will be better equipped to help.

[iWonder]

Yes, Connect through PPPoE not Dial-up.

Hmm, Speaking of DNS. When I changed the Bridge connection to PPPoE from modem, I had manually put 3 dns servers to my "Ethernet" profile in "Network" whereas it used to be only 1 before. Does that have to do with anything ?

How does OpenDNS work ? (Checking it out.)

[Big Mac]

You should be entering the DNS servers into the router control panel interface. Doing that may make thins run faster. As for OpenDNS you just go to the site and copy the DNS address they specify to use their DNS instead of your ISP's.

[Simon]

OpenDNS uses these two IPs
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220