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Old 09-12-2016, 02:08 PM
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Those are Google's public DNS servers. You may want to continue to use them after Century link fixes thing, the tend to be faster than most others.

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Originally Posted by chuckandbernice View Post
I just got off the phone with tech support and yes, they are having a problem. BUT, here is a work-around.
Go to the control panel, choose network and sharing, change adapter settings, choose your connection method, right click to get to properties, select internet protocol 4, then properties, preferred DNS server and enter 8.8.8.8
and the alternate DNS server 8.8.4.4