Slow Browsing: 30/5/06

[Zee]

Many websites are not working, these are a few:

http://go.microsoft.com
http://www.morpheus.com

Either it goes to google search or it says:


Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

• Most likely causes:

• You are not connected to the Internet.
• The website is encountering problems.
• There might be a typing error in the address

Anyone else having issues?

with these kind of things, it helps to say whereabouts you are, those links work fine for me




<<<< I live here

[Nedkelly]

Ok in Grimsby as Home alone has said where do you live As there may be others on this site in your area

[Zee]

Sorry, i'm in North West London.

I set my proxy to an ntl: Belfast proxy, it went worse.

EDIT:

I've changed my proxy to Bromley and the sites are working fine, browsing of websites is also much faster.

Originally Posted by Jack001

Sorry, i'm in North West London.

I set my proxy to an ntl: Belfast proxy, it went worse.

EDIT:

I've changed my proxy to Bromley and the sites are working fine, browsing of websites is also much faster.

just saw your edit, that will probably be ok, for now - try putting it back to 'normal' after a couple of days to see if the default cacheing is working, again.

[Zee]

I'll set it back to normal tomorrow.

I don't know what is going on with my area lately; i think they have oversubscribed the area.

In the last 2-3 weeks the service has been so poor, and in the last month, ntl have been going to people's door in my area, putting leaflets through the door about Broadband, and also in the last month they have had a tent thing in my local shopping centre giving away 1Mbps Broadband for £9.99 for 6 months.

If there are too many people, why are they so bothered to get more people to join in my area?

[Jules]

Working fine in Leeds

[Zee]

Turns out there is an overload in the area.
I made a new thread regarding a simular issue.
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...016#post752016

[Zee]

Ok, something i've noticed is sites to do with P2P are not working such as:

www.morpheus.com
www.limewire.com
www.bearshare.com
www.kazaa.com
www.grokster.com

I don't use any of those programs except Morpheus, it's also odd that Morpheus itself is working but the site isn't.

Could it be ntl blocking me from going to these sites or just something else?

[Druchii]

Originally Posted by Jack001

Ok, something i've noticed is sites to do with P2P are not working such as: www.morpheus.com www.limewire.com www.bearshare.com www.kazaa.com www.grokster.com I don't use any of those programs except Morpheus, it's also odd that Morpheus itself is working but the site isn't. Could it be ntl blocking me from going to these sites or just something else?

For anyone else reading this thread it was indeed something else, a maliciously edited hosts file on his machine.

[Zee]

Originally Posted by Druchii

For anyone else reading this thread it was indeed something else, a maliciously edited hosts file on his machine.

Thanks for that.

Indeed the problem regarding websites redirecting to other websites had nothing to do with ntl: that was my fault, so sorry to ntl.

The problem about slow browsing and some sites going to "page cannot be displayed" is to do with ntl: - due to something in my area being overloaded, they now have to many customers in my area and it can't take it.