Site will not load on my pc at home

[Fossil]

Hello all,

For the past week or two, ww forums is inaccessable from my pc at home.I am using firefox 3~ on windows machine.

Site loads fine at work using IE on windows machine.

I have eptied cache, used cc cleaner to totally get rid of all old cookies etc, and to clean registry. All other sites are fine, it is just ww forums that will not load.

Any ideas???

Fossil

[Wongdai]

When you say "won't load" what do you mean? Nothing comes up at all, or you get an error message?

[Fossil]

I get an error message.

I think it is a timeout error but will have to check tonight and then respond tomorrow from this computer at work.
I don't have trouble with any other sites.

[wheelinround]

Fossil I have noticed here also things being much slower as the week ware on I'm down the mountain so your not alone hope it clears up soon.

I only had one other Forum site doing the same thing this morning

[Fossil]

Ok. Here is a screen capture of the error message.

Any ideas why I can't connect to WW forums from my home PC anymore??

[Big Shed]

My best guess would be dot point #4, firewall settings issue.

If you don't have problems with any other sites, that would indicate that somehow you have changed the firewall settings for the forum on this PC.

[Fossil]

Yeah tanks for the response Big Shed, but I checked that this morning and ZA firewall is not blocking it. I ven shut down ZA completly and then refreshed page to try to connect, and same error. Really confusiong.

[Big Shed]

Yeah tanks for the response Big Shed, but I checked that this morning and ZA firewall is not blocking it. I ven shut down ZA completly and then refreshed page to try to connect, and same error. Really confusiong.

OK, my best guess wasn't good enough

Have you tried using IE on your machine rather than Firefox? (grasping at straws here!)

[Fossil]

Have you tried using IE on your machine rather than Firefox? (grasping at straws here!)

That's a good suggestion.

I don't like IE but at least that would be a good test to see if it is FF realated.

I will give it a go tonight. Thanks.

[snowyskiesau]

Have you checked the network settings in FF?

Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Settings.

Make sure that it's set to No Proxy

[Fossil]

Thanks geoff.

I will check that as well.

[Wongdai]

In order to facilitate further troubleshooting, go into a command prompt and do a tracert to the woodworkforums web site.

This will tell you where the timeout is happening.

[Barry_White]

I've been using Google Chrome for the Woodwork Forums. Firefox has been doing funny things with the forum and wont remember the site and I have to keep re-logging in.

[FXST01]

Do you use AdBlock within Firefox?

[Fossil]

Hi again all.

Well some interesting results from my testing over the weekend.
I couldn't connect after doing all of the suggestions above. I thought perhaps WW forums may have been blocking my IP address, so I logged on through an online proxy in Russia. Although very slow.... (routing through dodgy proxy) I was able to acces the pages withoput a problem. So.... I believe that for some reason WW forums are indeed blocking my IP. Unforunately I have to wait an undetermined amount of time before my isp assigns another IP to me. I am told this could be today, or next year, and that it is an automatic process based on the needs of the network. I have tried to force an IP change through my router at home, but I didn't have any luck there either.

At least my wife is happy I am not scouring over the forums at home when I should be working!!