crappy Interent for the past week or so

[J Anoni]

If you do not want to be blocked from USA sites on your Roku Device, I would suggest subscribing to UnblockUS which is a Canadian company offering a "Smart DNS" service for 4.99/month Canadian. Essentially you enter their DNS servers into your router configuration and it fools sites like Nefilx USA into thinking you are in the USA. It works for Netflix and about 30 other streaming sites that are normally accessed via streaming players such as Roku Devices. However this service is not a VPN, but rather, as mentioned, a "Smart DNS" service. UnblockUS and Smart DNS can be googled.

Note that USTVNow does not require the use of Smart DNS or a VPN. However, it is very important to know that if you are using UnblockUS in order to receive Netflix USA or the such, that you SHOULD NOT use the normal UnblockUS DNS servers. You should use their alternate servers which are 184.106.242.193 and 67.23.7.56 . Using their normal servers are fine for NetflixUSA etc., but the normal servers will cause USTVNow to not function. (Also note that if using UnblockUS DNS with Roku, only enter their DNS into your router, not into your computer. Use your normal DNS servers in your computer)

Also, someone posted that some sites were not coming in, and others were, on their Infiinitum connections. That is a DNS problem. Note that what I am talking about here has nothing to do with what I was talking about in the above two paragraphs. I would download and run "Namebench" which is a program, that when run, will find the fastest DNS servers for your system and geographical location. Telmex's DNS servers are very fast, but I have suspected them of screwing up a lot lately so I ran Namebench and found that their were some OpenDNS servers that were faster and more efficient. I am currently using one of the recommended OpenDNS servers in my #1 slot on my computer, and Telmex's second server in my #2 slot on my computer.