Vanity: Anyone Else Having Internet Connection Problems?

[savedbygrace]

Beginning 5 or 10 minutes ago, I began having trouble connecting with a lot of websites. Yahoo, Google are a couple of the major ones.

Anyone else?

[50cal Smokepole]

Don’t worry. It’s just a slow news day.

[Doogle]

clear your history...
then sign off..reconnect see if it works

[Artemis Webb]

Missouri is still good.
Yahoo still sucks but not the connection to it.

[shineon]

Bush’s fault. Just woke up. Who won the election?

[ChildOfThe60s]

Try pinging. It can tell you if the problem is some sites or you own connection.

For example, go to a command prompt and use this command:
ping www.freerepublic.com

Pinging www.freerepublic.com [209.157.64.201] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 209.157.64.201: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=48
Reply from 209.157.64.201: bytes=32 time=85ms TTL=48
Reply from 209.157.64.201: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=48
Reply from 209.157.64.201: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=48

Ping statistics for 209.157.64.201:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 85ms, Maximum = 86ms, Average = 85ms

[shaft29]

So far today, the only site I have been unable to access is my ex husband’s bank account. But I am continuing to try.

[McGruff]

Mine is good.

Try going to http://www.speedtest.net and test at your recommended server

You should have results something like

[proxy_user]

If you do have DNS resolution, try a tracert to one of the IPs you are trying to hit:

.

C:\Documents and Settings\Residents Account>tracert 74.125.127.100

Tracing route to pz-in-f100.google.com [74.125.127.100]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 3 ms 2 ms 1 ms pz-in-f100.google.com [74.125.127.100]
2 11 ms 12 ms 11 ms bras5-l0.mrdnct.sbcglobal.net [204.60.4.41]
3 * 10 ms 32 ms dist1-vlan60.mrdnct.sbcglobal.net [66.159.184.22
6]
4 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms bb1-10g2-0.mrdnct.sbcglobal.net [151.164.92.147]

5 14 ms 15 ms 14 ms 12.83.63.133
6 15 ms 15 ms 16 ms 72.14.217.149
7 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms 209.85.252.215
8 59 ms 75 ms 40 ms 209.85.251.233
9 94 ms 156 ms 124 ms 216.239.43.80
10 100 ms 101 ms 98 ms 216.239.46.212
11 98 ms 98 ms 98 ms 64.233.174.97
12 109 ms 127 ms * 216.239.46.22
13 101 ms 98 ms 97 ms pz-in-f100.google.com [74.125.127.100]

Trace complete.

If you are getting stuck or blackholed somewhere, you will at least see where.

[autumnraine]

I know! What’s up with that?

[ErnBatavia]

My computer’s getting old, and when that happens (about once a day now....sigh) I do a shutdown/restart and 95% of the time I’ve gotten the bandaid to get me through the rest of the day.

[charmedone]

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[EdReform]

Since you have at least some connectivity (FR), see if you can get to www.dslreports.com.

If you can access that website, click on the "Forums" tab then scroll down to "Direct Support··Direct and Official Support from ISP employees." If your ISP is listed, click on their link and you should be able see if anyone is experiencing problems in your area.

[TheBigIf]

I was having the same problems.

I was in a debate with a bunch of Obama supporters though and thought that I was possibly being hacked.

Since someone else was having the same problems then maybe it was something else.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

I have decided that in my case that often the problem seems to be in Internet Explorer 8.0 - before the update to the new version I did not have a problem.

Usually a reboot will get things working again.

My internet connection is a high-speed DSL - best available from ATT.

[savedbygrace]

Sorry it’s taken so long to reply. I appreciate all the help, and the joking.

After hearing from a few of you that the problem wasn’t widespread, I called my ISP, Cable One. I had discovered that, although I could access some URLs on the Internet, my cable phone was not working. No problem with cable TV.

The tech checked it out and said they are having a problem in my area, and they are working on it. He said I was able to access some URLs and not others because some were in my History.

That’s not so, because the search engine I used when I couldn’t get into Google is a URL I haven’t sued for at least a year (Cuil).

Mystery, but at least they’re working on it.

Hey, I just tried the phone line and I got dial tone.

OK, I just tried Google and got in.

FIXED!!!!

Thank you everybody.

[savedbygrace]

Thank you. See #36.

[autumnraine]

Glad you are up and running. And I love the jokesters here on FR. Who said liberals have the market on funny people?

[McGruff]

I could access some URLs on the Internet, my cable phone was not working. No problem with cable TV.

One time I was on the phone with my cable company trying to get the Internet fixed when the phone went dead. Now my wife has some medical conditions that we need reliable phone service. Went back to Ma Bell. We even have 1 not old electric phone so if the electricity goes out we can still make phones calls.

We had alot of trouble with cable Internet so I went to ATT's DSL service. Much more reliable but not as fast.

[fieldmarshaldj]

That’ll be almost enough to buy a Snickers in 2012...