Calling all Bell Users!

ckl_88 · #1 (**permalink**) 06-23-2008, 04:04 PM

For those of you on the Bell Mobility network, just wondering if you guys have experienced this issue:

After flashing a few custom ROMS and running the Sprint PPST and also the Bell PPST, I've been getting very weird internet issues. For example, yesterday afternoon, I was surfing the internet using Opera Mini for a couple of hours and everything was fine. Then at around midnight, Opera Mini wouldn't connect at all. It would say Connection Failed... blah blah blah. So I went into PIE and brought up the first favourite I could find and it happened to be mobilespeedtest.com. PIE said "connecting..." and then "locating..." and it would just sit there... I thought, what the hell is it trying to locate? Then I stopped it and went to cbc.ca and it loaded up fine. Weird. So then I tried another site called arstechnica.com and it sat there at the "Locating..." status again and wouldn't load the page. So is there something wrong with the data network or my phone? So I went to the HTC home and refreshed the weather and it brought back the weather information fine. Then I went into Windows Live and did a send/receive to fetch my mail. I didn't get any new mail but it didn't fail either. So what the heck is going on?

This morning, I tried the exact same thing and this time everything seems back to normal. The problem is, yesterday was not the first time this happened. Sometimes it happens during the day, sometimes at night, and it doesn't happen everyday. I can't seem to figure it out.

Today, I've been looking around the registry trying to find anything related to DNS entries as the "Locating..." problem tells me that it can't find the domain name.. which also explains why some sites work and others don't. I happened to come across this setting:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->COMM->CELLULAR LINE->PARMS->TCPIP->

DNS
it's got 2 entries:
204.174.120.45
204.174.120.46

I did a lookup on these and found that they belong to BCTEL Mobility?

Is this correct? Anyone with the stock Bell ROM can confirm that these are the correct entries?

FYI, my setup is:
Radio 3.37.15
ROM NSFAN's Bell Rom 1.0.4
PRL 31398
PRI 2.03_003 (tried Bell PPST but didn't make a difference)

commandant83 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-26-2008, 02:23 PM

good day,

well as far as i know BCTEL is telus before the name change, however i personally do not have any issues with internet connectivity on the bell network here in ontario.

i will do a bit more research and get back to you, but to be honest with you i dont believe this issue has anything to do with your phone or rom.

gold_sprinter · #3 (**permalink**) 06-26-2008, 03:02 PM

CKL 88, have you tried using the open DNS IP addresses? It should also speed up your connections.

DNS: 208.67.222.222

Alt DNS: 208.67.220.220

Hope this helps

ckl_88 · #4 (**permalink**) 06-26-2008, 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by commandant83

good day,

well as far as i know BCTEL is telus before the name change, however i personally do not have any issues with internet connectivity on the bell network here in ontario.

i will do a bit more research and get back to you, but to be honest with you i dont believe this issue has anything to do with your phone or rom.

But I'm on Bell Mobility, not Telus. My concern is that the custom ROMs are all copied from one another and somewhere down the line, somebody changed this setting (because they were on Telus) and then when they released their kitchen, somebody used that to create a Bell ROM and forgot to change that reg entry.

I did try changing it to use the opendns entries but after a soft reset, it always reverts back.