ADSL not working for certain sites

Can anyone suggest what the problem might be?

I use e7even 2Meg ADSL. I can connect to much of the web, such as
google, but a lot of sites aren't working for me (since about 16:00
Friday).
If I connect to my work VPN and go out through their firewall the
sites are working.

Some example sites I cannot connect to are
www.radiotimes.com
www.e7even.com - a bit bizarre since they're my provider!

Cheers PJ

Hi Pj
Managed to connect to both of those sites ok.
I have noticed a slowing down of the speeds over the past few days with
my provider (Demon) though!.
Steve

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:13:52 +0100, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>Can anyone suggest what the problem might be?
>
>I use e7even 2Meg ADSL. I can connect to much of the web, such as
>google, but a lot of sites aren't working for me (since about 16:00
>Friday).
>If I connect to my work VPN and go out through their firewall the
>sites are working.
>
>Some example sites I cannot connect to are
>www.radiotimes.com
>www.e7even.com - a bit bizarre since they're my provider!

When this happened to me (F2S) I emailed their support centre. The
problem was with their DNS servers and they fixed it within a couple
of days (possibly sooner, I didn't try for a while) and emailed back
to let me know.


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(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Can anyone suggest what the problem might be?
>
> I use e7even 2Meg ADSL. I can connect to much of the web, such as
> google, but a lot of sites aren't working for me (since about 16:00
> Friday).
> If I connect to my work VPN and go out through their firewall the
> sites are working.
>
> Some example sites I cannot connect to are
> www.radiotimes.com
> www.e7even.com - a bit bizarre since they're my provider!
>
> Cheers PJ

try lowering the mtu on your setup, i had a problem with a ukonline adsl
connection, not connecting to certain sites, it fixed that problem

use drtcp

http://www.dslreports.com/drtcp

try an mtu of about 1400 upwards see if you get any improvement... Take a
note of your existing one, though to return it back if it doesnt solve the
problem.

Gaz

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:09:41 +0100, "Gaz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>> Can anyone suggest what the problem might be?
>>
>> I use e7even 2Meg ADSL. I can connect to much of the web, such as
>> google, but a lot of sites aren't working for me (since about 16:00
>> Friday).
>> If I connect to my work VPN and go out through their firewall the
>> sites are working.
>>
>> Some example sites I cannot connect to are
>> www.radiotimes.com
>> www.e7even.com - a bit bizarre since they're my provider!
>>
>> Cheers PJ
>
>try lowering the mtu on your setup, i had a problem with a ukonline adsl
>connection, not connecting to certain sites, it fixed that problem
>
>use drtcp
>
>http://www.dslreports.com/drtcp
>
>try an mtu of about 1400 upwards see if you get any improvement... Take a
>note of your existing one, though to return it back if it doesnt solve the
>problem.
>
>Gaz
>

Thanks for the suggestions folks.
I'd emailed support and they had some kind of DNS problem that was
sorted a few hours later.
(one irritation was their 'status' page said everything was OK!)