Hello.
I have TalkTalk ADSL broadband, and I recently tried to replace their Huawei modem router with a Vigor 2710N. However, after doing that I experienced some problems when browsing, particularly with gmail, facebook and some other sites. Some of them would load very slowly, and in gmail, I wasn't even able to logon (and I tried this over a wired connection, different machines, browsers, etc.).
After some searching, I found the suggestion to reduce the MTU size in the router, from 1442 to 1432. I did so, restarted, and now I was able to log-in to gmail. But I noticed some of the problems still persisted. Gmail, sometimes loses connection, ie, it becomes unresponsive for a while, show the "Oops the system has encountered an error" or "Unable to reach Google Mail. Please check your internet connection. Trying again in X". Other pages are mysteriously slow to load (the stay blank for several seconds, then load fast), even though overall connection speed is good: ADSL base speed is 20Mbps, and I can get 12-17 Mbps download speed on speedtest.net.
I tried to further reduced the MTU to 1400, but the problems remained just the same. At this point I decided to ask for help, as this is really strange. I ask them, does anyone have any idea what could be wrong here, or some ideas to try to diagnose the problem? I dont have any of these problems with the standard Huawei router.
Bruno.
