FOAK: Connection oddities

Occasionally my interweb connection throws a wobbly - I can
send/receive email, connect to usenet, ftp, but can't get pull in any
web pages (I've tried different browers).

Wassup?

 

You could be hitting a shite proxy server. Used to be common with NTL,
& the solution was to hard-code the settings to a more stable proxy.
Who's your ISP?

 

Probably your AV software getting in a tizz.

 

Happens to me occasionally. Restarting the PC fixes it.

 

I'm guessing it's Virgin formerly NTL. As well as dodgy proxies their DNS
gets overwhelmed too. A while back, five of us shared an NTL cable
connection and we all used alternative DNS. Open DNS in my case.

 

whereas I use Virgin formerly Blueyonder formerly Telewest, and have
no such problems whatsoever.

 

whereas I use Virgin formerly Blueyonder formerly Telewest, and have
no such problems whatsoever.

*Ding*.

JB

 

Optimity - a smallish company who provide for all things internetty for
SWMBO's company - at least we have an account manager who I can hassle
and get then to take it up with BT.

 

I have some issues with Virgin formerly NTL. OTOH I have issues with
OpenDNS as well.


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Ah, that could be my problem. I regularly get intermittent time-outs on
DNS lookups, and yet if I refresh a web page that's just failed, it
invariably works again. Not always though.

 

Try with the Google DNS servers:

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

 

<pedant mode>
Doesn't "invariably" mean the same as "always"?
</pm>

 

Well you gets what you pays for eh. I have the same problem but unlike TTNet
DNS, OpenDNS actually tell you where stuff is, instead of redirecting you
to a big red "This site is banned!!" page when you click on a youtube link.

They have really started to get stroppy about this and are seeming to ban
much more at the national boundary firewall instead. Google has trouble with
a lot of stuff randomly as they are busily blocking big chunks of google's
net-block due to the banning of you tube and other weird stuff.

Then again it could just be massive incompetence.

 

Not in this case, no.