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MrB · 05-06-2009, 07:13

I wonder if anyone can help me please. For the past two days I have not been able to access two of my own websites but can it appears access any other site I wish to visit. I am currently working on two sites that are on a new host (hobby, not commercial). I won't post the urls here as they are still in development.

These sites can be accessed anywhere, apart from my house when they timeout. I have a PDA and have tried through GPRS at home - fast load, no problem, tried with the wireless connection on the PDA on my home network, it times out - this seems to narrow it down to either the Linksys wireless router (no changes made to set up, worked fine for years, no filtering settings set) or Virgin Media servers. I have not needed any proxy settings up to now - having read on a forum that it may be something to do with Proxy settings, on my laptop I changed settings yesterday morning to webcache.virginmedia.com on port 8080 - it immediately solved the problem, then the problem returned last night. However, as the webcache settings were on one computer, not my home network, I suspect it has to be something to do with VM or the wireless router but not sure what?

The websites are plain Joomla, education/research focused (ie no adult or other questionable content - one is just the brand new site with the template and little content) - would the VM network block the IP (as they are on shared hosting, same server, different package) somehow for some reason? And if yes, how do I resolve as I have lost two days trying to do updates?

Many thanks

MrB

05-06-2009, 07:13	#1
MrB Inactive Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 244	Weird and annoying problem - Network Timeout on My Sites Only! I wonder if anyone can help me please. For the past two days I have not been able to access two of my own websites but can it appears access any other site I wish to visit. I am currently working on two sites that are on a new host (hobby, not commercial). I won't post the urls here as they are still in development. These sites can be accessed anywhere, apart from my house when they timeout. I have a PDA and have tried through GPRS at home - fast load, no problem, tried with the wireless connection on the PDA on my home network, it times out - this seems to narrow it down to either the Linksys wireless router (no changes made to set up, worked fine for years, no filtering settings set) or Virgin Media servers. I have not needed any proxy settings up to now - having read on a forum that it may be something to do with Proxy settings, on my laptop I changed settings yesterday morning to webcache.virginmedia.com on port 8080 - it immediately solved the problem, then the problem returned last night. However, as the webcache settings were on one computer, not my home network, I suspect it has to be something to do with VM or the wireless router but not sure what? The websites are plain Joomla, education/research focused (ie no adult or other questionable content - one is just the brand new site with the template and little content) - would the VM network block the IP (as they are on shared hosting, same server, different package) somehow for some reason? And if yes, how do I resolve as I have lost two days trying to do updates? Many thanks MrB