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creavy
Jul 14, 2017Aspirant
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 ...
- Jul 16, 2017
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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
Jul 14, 2017Aspirant
All Windows 10, MAC OS and IOS
creavy
Jul 14, 2017Aspirant
Sorry I now assume which os I was using when I was running the ping tests. I was doing it on an iMac using MAC OS
- creavyJul 14, 2017Aspirant
It is given me some options. Which should I use instead of -f and -i?
Seans-iMac-38438:~ seancreavy$ ping yahoo.com 1492
usage: ping [-AaDdfnoQqRrv] [-c count] [-G sweepmaxsize]
[-g sweepminsize] [-h sweepincrsize] [-i wait]
[-l preload] [-M mask | time] [-m ttl] [-p pattern]
[-S src_addr] [-s packetsize] [-t timeout][-W waittime]
[-z tos] host
ping [-AaDdfLnoQqRrv] [-c count] [-I iface] [-i wait]
[-l preload] [-M mask | time] [-m ttl] [-p pattern] [-S src_addr]
[-s packetsize] [-T ttl] [-t timeout] [-W waittime]
[-z tos] mcast-group
Apple specific options (to be specified before mcast-group or host like all options)
-b boundif # bind the socket to the interface
-k traffic_class # set traffic class socket option
-K net_service_type # set traffic class socket options
-apple-connect # call connect(2) in the socket
-apple-time # display current time - st_shawJul 14, 2017Master
The commands differ between OS. The link I posted was for Windows.
Also, because your issue is only with specific sites, you must ping the website or server you are having trouble with. It looks like you were pinging yahoo or something in the last test.
- st_shawJul 14, 2017Master
Run it on Windows if you can.
And, it's -l 1492 not -i 1492. That's a lowercase L! -i does something totally different.
- creavyJul 14, 2017Aspirant
Many thanks. I'll run it on the one Windows PC we have got in the house (my wiife's using it to shop at the moment - if only it was was that part of the wifi that wasn't working instead of the email systems!)
- st_shawJul 14, 2017Master
LOL! A router that limits the wife's shopping. That would be a big seller!
- st_shawJul 14, 2017Master
See this link where a user had the same problem. The solution was, "I reduced the MTU of the router to 1442, and now I can can access all sites."
I'm not saying this is definitely the OP's problem, just that it could be.