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<blockquote data-quote="Ghufran" data-source="post: 921697" data-attributes="member: 404077">Hi all!Came across this forum as I too am now having issues with sky on demand (using it from Switzerland) with overplay's smartdns service.Initially I had problems with sky go but sky on demand worked fine, albeit very slowly.&nbsp; More recently, however, I am experiencing the same as most of you guys here - sky go works fine, but service to on demand has been disrupted.Current situation:1. Router has overplay smartdns entries configured2. Sky network settings show connection to broadband OK, connection to on demand FAILI have found a workaround which allows me to temporarily trick the on demand service to work for one download, after which the connection to on demand fails again.I am doing the following:1. Navigate to sky network settings and press the green button for manual ip configuration2. In the DNS settings type in one of the free Google or OpenDNS servers:Google - 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4OpenDNS - 208.67.220.220 / 208.67.222.2223. Press green button to save settings and then red to reset the settingsI find that doing the above gets the connection to on demand to OK after which you can go and use the on demand service. However, after downloading 1 or 2 programmes I need to repeat the above process.If you get a HTTP_FORBIDDEN error on downloads causing them to fail but connection to on demand is OK, then try to use the red button to reset settings and try again.Obviously a bit of a chore, but this is keeping me going until I find a better solution.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ghufran, post: 921697, member: 404077"] Hi all! Came across this forum as I too am now having issues with sky on demand (using it from Switzerland) with overplay's smartdns service. Initially I had problems with sky go but sky on demand worked fine, albeit very slowly. More recently, however, I am experiencing the same as most of you guys here - sky go works fine, but service to on demand has been disrupted. Current situation: 1. Router has overplay smartdns entries configured 2. Sky network settings show connection to broadband OK, connection to on demand FAIL I have found a workaround which allows me to temporarily trick the on demand service to work for one download, after which the connection to on demand fails again. I am doing the following: 1. Navigate to sky network settings and press the green button for manual ip configuration 2. In the DNS settings type in one of the free Google or OpenDNS servers: Google - 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4 OpenDNS - 208.67.220.220 / 208.67.222.222 3. Press green button to save settings and then red to reset the settings I find that doing the above gets the connection to on demand to OK after which you can go and use the on demand service. However, after downloading 1 or 2 programmes I need to repeat the above process. If you get a HTTP_FORBIDDEN error on downloads causing them to fail but connection to on demand is OK, then try to use the red button to reset settings and try again. Obviously a bit of a chore, but this is keeping me going until I find a better solution. [/QUOTE]

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