Airlink+ AR315W DNS Problems

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Dave <ashkii22@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<10m0s6vh1s67i70@corp.supernews.com>...
> I bought this Router/Wireless G AP/Switch from Electronic Fry's for
> $24.99 no rebates. The wired side works very well, but the wireless side
> seems to have DNS problems. It would take a long time to resolve a name
> about every 10 min, sometimes it would not be able to resolve.
> I looked on the airlinkplus website but they do not have a firmware out.
> I searched on google but there was not very much about it. It uses
> Marvell chipset, the same as in the linksys WRK54G. I was wondering if
> anyone tried to flash this firmware in the airlink router. I have not
> tried it because I am too scared to ruin the router.
> Like I said it works just fine without the wireless.

I am having problems with the wired connections. Instead of the real
DNS servers, 192.168.1.1 is showing up as the lone DNS server.

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.100
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

C:\>nslookup
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.1.1: Timed out
*** Default servers are not available
Default Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.1.1

> google.com
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.1.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 216.239.37.99

C:\>ping www.microsoft.com

Pinging www.microsoft.com [207.46.249.252] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 207.46.249.252:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms