How to fix internet issues in Singapore today - 15/04/2020

Today, alot of Singaporeans were having issues with their home internet, especially StarHub!

StarHub's Internet service is facing intermittent outage issues on Wednesday (April 15), causing disruption to subscribers working and studying at home.

StarHub, in confirming the problem on its Facebook page, said fibre broadband services for some customers living in the north and north-east of Singapore were "temporarily affected" this morning for 20 minutes due to its network equipment "fault".

Source: https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/starhub-facing-internet-issues-causing-disruption-to-those-working-and-studying-at-home

H?ow to fix?

Note: The techniques in this article works in Windows 7, 8, and 10.

Right-click the network status icon in your system tray, and then click “Open the Network and Sharing Center” on the context menu.

In the “Network and Sharing Center” window, click the “Change adapter settings” link at the upper left.

Or in Windows 10 it would look like this

Click Change Adapter options in windows 10

In the “Network Connections” window, right-click the connection for which you want to change the DNS settings, and then click “Properties” on the context menu.

In the properties window, select “Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP / IPv4)” on the list, and then click the “Properties” button.

The bottom half of the “Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP / IPv4) Properties” window shows the DNS settings. Select the “Use the following DNS server addresses” option. Next, type in the IP addresses for the preferred and alternate DNS servers you want to use. Here are the IP addresses for Google DNS and Open DNS:

Google DNS

Preferred: 8.8.8.8

Alternate: 8.8.4.4

OpenDNS

Preferred: 208.67.222.222

Alternate: 208.67.220.220

We’re using Google DNS in our example, but feel free to use whichever you like. When you’ve typed in the addresses, click the “OK” button.

From now on, you should experience quicker and more reliable DNS lookups. While it’s not going to make your browser suddenly screamingly fast or anything, every little bit helps.