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OK, everybody - try pasting the ip address (209.157.64.200) for freerepublic.com into the url at the top of the page, like this:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2954973/posts
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/2954973/posts

Now you can do that by clicking on the link and while the new window is trying to find the address, then go to url and do the paste then hit enter - should pop the page right in.

You can right click on the link and select “copy shortcut” from the menu, paste it into a notepad, then substitute the ip address for freerepublic.com and copy that to the address bar of a new window.

My favorite trick is to keep a notepad open with the following allready typed in:

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/

then all I have to do is
A) enter the article number followed by “/posts” or “/posts?post=34#34” (or whatever post # I’m going to,

“/reply?c=34” (or whatever post # I’m replying to)

or “http://209.157.64.200/perl/post"; to post the reply.

This solution indicates that the most likely problem is DNS related, maybe D.O.S. attack, maybe bad DNS database - who knows?

I just know that I get threads and pages really fast with this method. Maybe Jim or John can check this out and let us know.

Well, it looks like I was wrong (like that’s never happened before, LOL).

My use of IP address (209.157.64.200, as urged for all in my previous post) instead of FreeRepublic.com URL stopped working, and what’s worse, when it did work, FR didn’t recognize me, forcing me to log in again.

UGH, I thought I had found the magic secret to a fast FR - waaaaahhh.

I think I’m gonna leave this to the experts, John and Jim.
Afterall, they have always fixed FR when ever a problem occurs.

All I want to know is WHO keeps breaking the internet, (not I, heheh).

Thank you Jim and John for FR and all you do.