Cant Access Certain Sites

jonnywright · 05-10-2005, 00:15

Hi all
Im new to this site but have heard good things and im very stuck! I am on ntl living in Leicester and am having problems connecting to certain websites. An example is www.foood.net. Other websits including www.ebuyer.co.uk are very slow to load. I have compared with friends and it seems to be people on ntl are the only ones with this problem! Anyone had this before or have any ideas how to fix it?

Thanks very much!!
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By the way i have no firewalls on and have tried pinging the sites and both reply very fast! Just to make things more complicated!

marky · 05-10-2005, 00:20

Hi and

To cf

I dont know what the problem is but you are not on your own, please read this and see if its simlar http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=36109
also i would put your firewall back up for now

Martin · 05-10-2005, 00:26

Both sites come up instantly for me so it could be the dreaded proxy server!!

MovedGoalPosts · 05-10-2005, 00:53

Moved to Web Proxy Discussion

Inevitably if you can get to some sites OK, but others are not, it's a ntl proxy issue. Try changing proxys and see if that makes any difference.

Chrysalis · 05-10-2005, 01:01

ebuyer is a defenite proxy issue it has been a well known troublesome site for months. http://www.foood.net/ fails for me on auto proxies, just sit's there forever

and I am in leicester.

jonnywright · 05-10-2005, 11:37

Ok how do i go about changin my proxy? I will give that a try

MovedGoalPosts · 05-10-2005, 11:40

It's one of the sticky threads: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=8783

bargepole · 05-10-2005, 12:13

As a newbie to this site could somebody tell me exactly what a proxy server is and how I can change it, how do you put in on auto etc.( I also have problems accessing some sites.)

I access from Manchester via a wireless router (if that's relevant).

05-10-2005, 12:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by bargepole

As a newbie to this site could somebody tell me exactly what a proxy server is and how I can change it, how do you put in on auto etc.( I also have problems accessing some sites.)

I access from Manchester via a wireless router (if that's relevant).

have a read through this

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d...trancache.html