Intertnet problems, tbqh its getting on my very last nerve :S

[Eagle101]

Hello every1,

Well i got this tiny problem with my internet.

Connection works fine, sites such as TGN, IMDB, Wiki, FPSbanana work fine for me and dont take too much time to load. But sites like Yahoo, loads very slowly, would take hours and would give me an error page unable to load :S :S :S Google opens up but does the same as yahoo it wont perform any searches :S i cant check my mail on Yahoo without refereshing the page countless times.

Sites like Filefront cannot be entered directily i have to go thrpugh Moddbs download pages :S

Pls hep.

I have Windows XP with SP3 with Firefox3.1

My windows XP theme is Vista Inspirat (downloaded from Google) if thats needed for u guys to know.

[pennywise]

Re: Intertnet problems, tbqh its getting on my very last nerve :S

Clear cookies/temporary files. Ran any spyware scans recently? Got any firewalls with strict settings on particular... settings? :S

[Eagle101]

Re: Intertnet problems, tbqh its getting on my very last nerve :S

I cleared everything, even ran CCL, am going to do a virus scan now with Avast, thing is its not only on my laptop but even in my old rig :S

[=98=]

Re: Intertnet problems, tbqh its getting on my very last nerve :S

What firewall?

[Eagle101]

Re: Intertnet problems, tbqh its getting on my very last nerve :S

Avast found a Trojan at startup scan and deleted it. I have my Windows Firewall off. Avast is managing all my Internet Security.

Everything is set at default on avast btw.

[Vreki]

Re: Intertnet problems, tbqh its getting on my very last nerve :S

Are you in Bahrain now? I can see that they have a history of semi random censorship, e.g. Google Earth

[=98=]

Re: Intertnet problems, tbqh its getting on my very last nerve :S

Avast isn't a firewall? It's only a virus scanner.

The only web based stuff it does is realtime scanning as you download data.

[Hellsent 2.0]

Re: Intertnet problems, tbqh its getting on my very last nerve :S

Avast isn't a firewall? It's only a virus scanner.

The only web based stuff it does is realtime scanning as you download data.

Yep thats what i love about avast..I was siting there quietly downloading a file when halfway trhough the download VWOOP VWOOP VIRUS ALERT! lol i shat myself!!! it was great, it didnt even download the file...And it knew it was a virus...

[Eagle101]

Re: Intertnet problems, tbqh its getting on my very last nerve :S

Yes i am in Bahrain right now, but no censors here really, idk bout Google Earth, ever since we got the Net yahoo and other search engines were fine :s. The windos Firewall is off, any others i should know bout i.e.a firefox firewall? Thanks

[Eagle101]

Re: Intertnet problems, tbqh its getting on my very last nerve :S

Ok i retreated back to Firefox 2.1.6 and yet the same resutls, as the same websites i tried to enter before:

N4g, Kotaku, Yahoo, Google Search engine, and Filefront will not open up. I do not know whats the problem, it is most certainly not a censoreship problem i am sure, and will make a call to my internet service center as well to verify that.

I am releived its not the internet connection thats down, but i have no clue why i cant access these sites as its my daily routine on the internet.

[=98=]

Re: Intertnet problems, tbqh its getting on my very last nerve :S

Ok i retreated back to Firefox 2.1.6 and yet the same resutls, as the same websites i tried to enter before:

N4g, Kotaku, Yahoo, Google Search engine, and Filefront will not open up. I do not know whats the problem, it is most certainly not a censoreship problem i am sure, and will make a call to my internet service center as well to verify that.

I am releived its not the internet connection thats down, but i have no clue why i cant access these sites as its my daily routine on the internet.

If it's only happening on certain sites, i call DNS shenanigans.

Get on the blower and talk to your ISP.

[Vreki]

Re: Intertnet problems, tbqh its getting on my very last nerve :S

You could try using a Proxy (http://proxy.org/), I think they work independently of your providers DNS.

Also, you must still have IE installed somewhere, right?
Is that having the same problems?

If you are feeling technical, you could try running ping and tracert against the sites from a command prompt. A successful ping means that the DNS is working, since that is how the names get resolved to IP adresses

[=98=]

Re: Intertnet problems, tbqh its getting on my very last nerve :S

Yeah, run a tracert www.yahoo.com or to whatever site is broke and post results.

Run trace route using the tracert command in CMD.

[Eagle101]

Re: Intertnet problems, tbqh its getting on my very last nerve :S

Whats DNS?

"The following error occurred:

[code=DNS_TIMEOUT] A DNS lookup error occurred because the request timed out during the lookup. "

Btw thats what i get off of Vreki's link when i type in yahoo in the bar.

About Filefront i can go to Moddb, get into a mod, open the dnld sites and use the Filefront mirror to get in, then i am in FIlefront somehow.

A new web is Facebook, i cant get into that as well.

I would just like to point out, that everything i have that uses the internet connection "Steam, MSN, Skype" work fine, as well as a few gaming sites, youtube, wiki, but the sites i posted above dont.

I can not think of anyting.

Alex could you explain your last post to me please, thanks everyone btw i clicked the link alex nothing, even when i reight click the tab and refresh it goes to untiteled :S

[=98=]

Re: Intertnet problems, tbqh its getting on my very last nerve :S

That error shows that the DNS servers at your end (Your ISP) aren't operating properly and cannot convert the domain name into an IP address, hence why the site isn't found.

Ring your ISP, tell them that and it should be fixed quickly.