Unable to browse the net in Mid-Cheshire

Can get on MSN messenger, download email and access news groups but
can't browse.
Tried thru Firefox & IE and no joy. Cousing got same problem a couple of
miles away - both of us are on BT broadband.

Anyone else got similars or check other any ideas?

Cheers

Edge

Thus spaketh Edge:
> Can get on MSN messenger, download email and access news groups but
> can't browse.
> Tried thru Firefox & IE and no joy. Cousing got same problem a couple
> of miles away - both of us are on BT broadband.
>
> Anyone else got similars or check other any ideas?
>
> Cheers
>
> Edge

Are you both using Zone Alarm?

Shutdown and restart Zone Alarm.

Edge wrote:
> Can get on MSN messenger, download email and access news groups but
> can't browse.
> Tried thru Firefox & IE and no joy. Cousing got same problem a couple
> of miles away - both of us are on BT broadband.
>
> Anyone else got similars or check other any ideas?
>
> Cheers
>
> Edge

Having the same problem but im with tiscali. So are LOTS of other people

Jimbob wrote:
> Edge wrote:
>
>>Can get on MSN messenger, download email and access news groups but
>>can't browse.
>>Tried thru Firefox & IE and no joy. Cousing got same problem a couple
>>of miles away - both of us are on BT broadband.
>>
>>Anyone else got similars or check other any ideas?
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>Edge
>
>
> Having the same problem but im with tiscali. So are LOTS of other people
>
>
Tried ZA off - made no difference.
It's wierd - can get ebay on one PC on my network but not the other.

Any idea where the fault lies and a resolution time?

> >
> Tried ZA off - made no difference.
> It's wierd - can get ebay on one PC on my network but not the other.
>
> Any idea where the fault lies and a resolution time?

Have you tried pinging IP addresses,rather than urls?
e.g
ping www.tiscali.net may not work but ping 213.254.253.188 will work,
meaning that that you have a DNS problem

Nat Stott wrote:
>>Tried ZA off - made no difference.
>>It's wierd - can get ebay on one PC on my network but not the other.
>>
>>Any idea where the fault lies and a resolution time?
>
>
> Have you tried pinging IP addresses,rather than urls?
> e.g
> ping www.tiscali.net may not work but ping 213.254.253.188 will work,
> meaning that that you have a DNS problem
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
Tried that - can ping www.nvfc.co.uk Ok but ebay.co.uk times out. Same
with tracert.
Put the ip in the browser and just waits - seems to get to the sites but
then gives up

> Can get on MSN messenger, download email and access news groups but
> can't browse.
> Tried thru Firefox & IE and no joy. Cousing got same problem a couple of
> miles away - both of us are on BT broadband.
> Anyone else got similars or check other any ideas?

Someone reported a similar problem on a php board I frequent at about 1pm

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> Someone reported a similar problem on a php board I frequent at about 1pm

I think there have only been about 6 new messages on there all night as
well, when its usually somewhere between 50-100

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Colin Wilson wrote:
>>Someone reported a similar problem on a php board I frequent at about 1pm
>
>
> I think there have only been about 6 new messages on there all night as
> well, when its usually somewhere between 50-100
>
All Ok this am.
Found this on the BT broadband site

March 17th 2005: Internet routing changesOur engineers are in the
process of making changes to the way some customer's internet traffic is
routed. If you have previously specified your DNS addresses, and have
recently started to experience difficulties browsing the internet, then
please reconfigure your DNS settings to point at two of the following
servers:

194.72.9.34194.72.9.38194.74.65.68194.74.65.69194. 72.0.98194.72.0.11462.6.40.16262.6.40
..178

If this does not improve your internet service, then please contact the
helpdesk for further guidance.

Please note that this is not a fix for all problems. You should only
make these changes if you have previously specified DNS addresses and if
you have started to experience problems browsing today (17/03).

> Found this on the BT broadband site <snip>

Thanks - someone on the forum is having major problems, but I just
discovered they've also just moved from AOL, so there may even be MTU
settings at work as part of their problem...

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