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Old 20-10-2008, 23:27   #17
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Re: Problems connecting to certain websites

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Originally Posted by Danatthepub View Post
im having trouble connecting to www.avforums.com and www.ntsc-uk.com , which are both forums sites. Not sure whether that would have anything to do with it. These sites worked last week and i know that they are not down because i can access them at work.

Im in Stirchley Birmingham.

How would i go about setting up a proxy?

Thanks peeps
Strange - I just tried both those sites and they loaded in a couple of seconds for me... I'm in the Dudley/Wolverhampton area on 10MB, not that far...

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Originally Posted by dave6x View Post
I'm getting the same problems accessing Yahoo mail from VM/NTL broadband.

I also have an Orange PAYG Dial-up connection, that accesses the Yahoo mail servers OK.
I can get on the http://mail.yahoo.com page ok (don't have an account though). I often have problems with www.flickr.com which I think is linked to Yahoo as you need a Yahoo id to log in...

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I can't log into flickr, again I'm getting the problem transferring data from l.yimg.com...
The main page loaded fine though.
I might see if I can get away with adding l.yimg.com to my hosts file to block it, I think it might be advertising or something...

I'm also using OpenDNS...
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