Is anyone here a computer genius? I have a baffling problem. In my current location, my wireless setup will connect me to this site and others, but not hotmail, myspace, and other sites. I can’t register at the help boards I have looked at, because I can’t get to my mail to link back after registering. Everything works fine in massachusetts, but not here in maine. I am on a digital network here, but not verizon, which is my service. They do not consider this their problem.
Anyone got any ideas? I will donate US$ 100.00 to ILP in the name of anyone who can solve this problem. I have consulted a couple of geniuses already, but they are stumped.
I realise that this is not a puter board, and wonder if this might be best done by pm. Again, email isn’t an option, as I am in massachusetts only once a week or so. Thank you in advance.
I’m not a computer genius but Tedious’s son might be right. It seems that you would be able to view certain sites but not others… that’s not a wireless thing, that’s the network.
What is the message that is displayed when you try for myspace?
Also, is this a wifi (large public area) connection?
My ISP is, as far as I know, Verizon, which does not recognise my problem as any of their concern. As I say, this problem occurs only when I am in an area where Verizon uses someone else’s towers. Could this network, which I think might be Sprint, or whatever that is now, be trying to prevent me from getting my mail? If so, how would I get around this? I am not their customer. Verizon won’t discuss it.
By the way, I was thinking about you today, wondering where you’ve been. I’m going to have to check back and see just how smartmouthed I have been with you. I am bellicose by nature, I will admit.
Well yeh weren’t that smartmouthed an I forgive yah anyway.
Now what OG an I say about networks is the real truth. You got ta take a look at patterns in life.
You say that email an myspace are not makin no noise. Email got the spam and the viruses an that hotmail is a genral kind of account, it aint one of them Isp specific accounts, right. Right. Then yah got the myspace all over the news an shit,so what does that say?
You should try some of them girlie sites an see if the let you through. If it works try it anyway!
gobbo - everyone asks me that. There is no message. It loads about half way by the bar indicator, and then just stops. If I’m not getting there, it’s slow even to the halfway point. ILP loads pretty quick, for maine. In mass, it’s almost like highspeed, and I can get to every site. Sometimes it says “done” on lower right, sometimes it’s just a blank page, sometimes the target url is showing in the browser window, and sometime the url from the page I am navigating from is still there. This is an aircard that I pay 60.00 a month to use. There is a wifi hotspot at work. Should I try that? it’s a laptop.
Tedious - I can get all the girlie sites I want. And they load pretty quick, most of them. Thank God.
Gemty - I couldn’t get microsoft at first. Now I can navigate some, but couldn’t get to download SP1 or ie7, which I thought might help. I have been getting further since I reloaded windows, in general. I had some accumulated adware stuff from download.com, for instance, that I got rid of. My startup is pretty clean - it seems in part a speed problem. I asked someone about adding memory, but was told this wouldn’t help. Haven’t gotten to myspace signin in a couple of days. Did the opther day, but no further. There aren’t many sites I do try to get to. But the troublesome ones are those I have mentioned, and some random sites I got off google that I thought might help. Message boards, and stuff.
What kind of filter? I get porn and google, but not msn and microsoft? weird.
And yeah… i would try the wifi if you really want to get into those places.
I’m not sure where you are or what you’re doing but it sounds like someone is (quite shittily in fact) trying to block pages that might eat up a lot of bandwith, ie if people are constantly on myspace and checking mail it would be busier than if people just occasionally google something. Or it may be a server problem somewhere close to the provider you are using now.
In any case… I really don’t think it’s your computer’s problem. Heh… memory definately isn’t going to help, lol.
gemty - can’t load that link to mozilla - wouldn’t you know. Outlook says that hotmail no longer allows outlook on free email accounts. It’s a conspriacy against me. I ma in internet hell.
Go into a command prompt (start > run > cmd [enter])
type “ping myspace.com” and hit enter, then tell me what you see…
If it says “host timed out” then you can’t connect to that server. If you get IP addresses and pings, then you can connect to it, but your browser is having trouble rendering it.
Gobbo. An aircard is like a cellphone you insert itno a computer. It’s a wireless modem. Kyocera, in this case.
pxc - myspace pings. Less than a second, if I remember correctly. I have tried mozilla, which is worse than IE. I have tried playing with browser extensions, to no avail. Everything works fine in Massachusetts and Florida. I cannot figure out why IE balks in eastern Maine. It’s still digital towers, I’m told, just not Verizon’s, and my verizon cellphone works fine.
Today I had a hell of a time signing in here. It’ll give be the “can’t find wep page” screen - the one you’d get if you opened IE without a connection. Sometimes if I x out that window (which leaves the ILP home page) I find that I am signed in - it just won’t tell me.
Often when I post, it’ll bring me to the login page - again and again. Sometimes I can just post.
Last night I tried to download the XP SP1. I could navigate all through the ms website until I got to the actual link to download SP1. Then, it’s usual behavior - it’ll load about halfway (according to the bargraph in the lower right - on the IE bar at the bottom of the window) and then just stop. Blank screen.
Now that “can’t load” window suggests I check my security settings. When I first did, I had to check on TLS1, which was not previously checked. No help. But it also says to check PCT1, if I remember correctly, which is not listed in my advanced property list. I thought that’s why I might try an update or service pack.
Don’t laugh Gobbo - I’m old, remember, and no youngster has figured this out yet. I thought maybe it was like a woman - just try everything until something works.
By the way, pxc - I can get to the myspace signin page, can get to the site, that is. I just can’t past that page, neither to my own homepage, nor to anyone else’s page (by using their url).
angel - I don’t actually have a router, if I understand you. My aircard (wireless modem) did prompt, when I reloaded windows, that it had to update for the coverage area, which it seemed to do automatically. I also went thought this manually with a support tech from verizon on the phone, to no avail.
Ok. Everytime you move your computer, your aircard will update automatically. Now, in order for your aircard to detect the internet it needs a port of some sort to connect through, usually by a router. I suspect that there will be some sort of firewall on that port.
After a marathon phone call to just about everyone in verizon wireless tech support, it has been determined that my problem is the network, and cannot be solved. I have a lot to say about verizon, how they treat their cutomers, how their “service” is, but that will probably be best done in Rant House. Suffice it to say that wirelss networks in Maine are evidently transmitted over small repeaters, worn by collared cows, and they have their preferences as to websites. It’s beautiful here, but I do not know how anyone actually lives in a civilised way here. They don’t really.
I want to thank all of you for your assistance. I truly do appreciate it.