After much anticipation, my copy of StarCraft II arrived in the post yesterday. I installed it. I ran it. It immediately started downloading a patch. Ten megabytes later, I lost all internet connectivity. Again, again, and a-bloody-gain. Now, it turns out I had recently upgraded to Windows 7, a thing of beauty, which automatically ran a network diagnostic tool and reported that there was a problem with the DNS service. Hmm, thinks I, maybe iiNet (who are my otherwise rather good ISP) have cocked up their DNS server. After a bit of resettery, I discover that Google have a publically available DNS server (8.8.8.8). I add this as the backup DNS server and, lo and behold, glorious sustained connectivity.
Having shared this with you, I am now about to abandon society and join the StarCraftiverse for some time. Adieu.
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