Home Network Router Configuration
Budget: £20 – £250 GBP
I need assistance in additional configuration of up TP-Link SafeStream router for my home network. Specifically, I need to configure the router as a DNS server to bypass an issue I'm having with my Sky Q box failing downloads when using Lit Fibre as my ISP.
Ideal skills for this project include:
- Expertise in TP-Link routers
- Knowledge of DNS server configuration
- Experience with home network setups
- Problem-solving skills for network issues
Please note, this is a home network setup with a multi-WAN router (I have both Lit Fibre and Virgin lines)
***See below the solution I'm looking to try - copied from a Sky user forum***
_The issue is that you are not using a SKY Internet Circuit and SKY do not Whitelist every other UK ISP on both their download sites, Limelight and Akamai.
As posted by StuartJeff in a different post, when your Sky box attempts to reach "ondemand.cdnselector.skycdp.com" it will get a response from your configured DNS servers, of one of these IPs
87.248.204.0
95.101.27.33
95.101.27.50
95.101.27.4
95.101.27.27
95.101.27.61
95.101.27.30
95.101.27.46
95.101.27.5
The first is Limelight and the others are Akamai
Now if Akamai are blocking your IP (as they are mine) what you will encounter is:-
a download or 2 that might succeed, followed by 3 or so failures, and back to succeed again.
The exact numbers are affected by how fast your circuit is (how many successes can you get before DNS switches to the other provider)
Sky could so easily fix this for everyone by keeping up to date with the UK ISP register and ensuring all UK ISPs are whitelisted, their reluctance to do this, should actually be investigated by the Monopolies Commision.
With my set up I got around this problem by using my Cisco router to provide DNS for the SKY box, and set a host record on the sky box, so that everytime SKY looked for that address, it always gets the same IP (the Limelight one which does work for me) and now I have NO issues, every download completes. By the way, if I switch my Router to give an Akamai IP it fails EVERY TIME!_
Ideal skills for this project include:
- Expertise in TP-Link routers
- Knowledge of DNS server configuration
- Experience with home network setups
- Problem-solving skills for network issues
Please note, this is a home network setup with a multi-WAN router (I have both Lit Fibre and Virgin lines)
***See below the solution I'm looking to try - copied from a Sky user forum***
_The issue is that you are not using a SKY Internet Circuit and SKY do not Whitelist every other UK ISP on both their download sites, Limelight and Akamai.
As posted by StuartJeff in a different post, when your Sky box attempts to reach "ondemand.cdnselector.skycdp.com" it will get a response from your configured DNS servers, of one of these IPs
87.248.204.0
95.101.27.33
95.101.27.50
95.101.27.4
95.101.27.27
95.101.27.61
95.101.27.30
95.101.27.46
95.101.27.5
The first is Limelight and the others are Akamai
Now if Akamai are blocking your IP (as they are mine) what you will encounter is:-
a download or 2 that might succeed, followed by 3 or so failures, and back to succeed again.
The exact numbers are affected by how fast your circuit is (how many successes can you get before DNS switches to the other provider)
Sky could so easily fix this for everyone by keeping up to date with the UK ISP register and ensuring all UK ISPs are whitelisted, their reluctance to do this, should actually be investigated by the Monopolies Commision.
With my set up I got around this problem by using my Cisco router to provide DNS for the SKY box, and set a host record on the sky box, so that everytime SKY looked for that address, it always gets the same IP (the Limelight one which does work for me) and now I have NO issues, every download completes. By the way, if I switch my Router to give an Akamai IP it fails EVERY TIME!_