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Using Gmail with an Orbi setup
I have managed to install Orbi in the house and wifi is working fine. However I am not getting my emails through Gmail. There is lots of technical speak about this but can someone please point me in ...
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I appear to have fixed the problem but don't ask me how. Everyne seemed to be suggesting I was have a dns problem. So I changed one of the dns switches in the Orbi app and suddenlt everything is working again including Gmail.
My thanks goes out to eveyone who took the time to respond to my issue and point me in the right direction. I don't understand any of these issues any better than before but it was the multiple suggestions regarding dns issues that made me look at my profiles and change the dns settings.
Thank you all. Without you I would have sent back the Orbi system to Amazon (to my/our detriment!).
Sean
creavy wrote:
Ping Gmail.google.com
64 bytes from 146.112.61.106: icmp_seq=23 ttl=58 time=17.155 ms
64 bytes from 146.112.61.106: icmp_seq=24 ttl=58 time=16.361 ms
Ping 172.217.3.46
64 bytes from 172.217.3.46: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=90.913 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.3.46: icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=88.877 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.3.46: icmp_seq=3 ttl=49 time=89.275 ms
146.112.61.106 is the address for hit-adult.opendns.com. Are you using OpenDNS domain filtering? You may have blocked access to gmail with it.
All
I appear to have fixed the problem but don't ask me how. Everyne seemed to be suggesting I was have a dns problem. So I changed one of the dns switches in the Orbi app and suddenlt everything is working again including Gmail.
My thanks goes out to eveyone who took the time to respond to my issue and point me in the right direction. I don't understand any of these issues any better than before but it was the multiple suggestions regarding dns issues that made me look at my profiles and change the dns settings.
Thank you all. Without you I would have sent back the Orbi system to Amazon (to my/our detriment!).
Sean