I dont know if it would help, but possibly get someone else's (slightly older) laptop in to see if that will connect to it? just a thought if you're getting desperate for ideas!
it sounds rather confuddling! ours does that occasionally, but thats because I'm usually hammering the downloads and some sites the router decides arent as important and a reboot just fixes that.. best of luck figuring it out, I'm certainly no networking bod.. :(
Hmmmmmm.... Diagnostically i'd do the following 1. Check if the IP Addy that the hostnames, for the sites that don't work, resolve into, is correct by getting someone to ping it and seeing if your DNS resolves into the same addy (If this is different change your DNS servers to be 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 (OpenDNS))
2. Ping broken sites (Start->Run->cmd then "ping www.livejournal.com") and see if the sites respond to the ping.
3. If the sites respond to the ping properly then try telneting to them on port 80 (Start->Run->cmd then "telnet www.livejournal.com 80"
If 2 succeeds and 3 fails then something is blocking port 80 to particular sites - my guess would be that that is an ISp issue unless you've got some really weird setting on your router...
Report back with the results and I'll try to help you more...
I typed the IP that my laptop resolved for www.livejournal.com (204.9.177.18) into my work PC and it worked fine.
I can ping "broken" sites fine.
Telnet: what's supposed to happen here? When I do it, either for "broken" or for working sites, the terminal goes blank except for a blinking cursor, which then moves if I type or press enter but no text appears on screen. The terminal window's title becomes "telnet www.livejournal.com". The same thing happens on my work PC.
I've scanned the laptop with a-squared (anti-spyware app); nothing.
Does any of that suggest where the problem might lie? Thanks so much for your help so far!
I am no computer help, so I just say "yay for Dave on t'internet again!" Also, I feel like I've not seen you in an age. I'm going to try and arrange some new flat drinkles for next week.
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it sounds rather confuddling! ours does that occasionally, but thats because I'm usually hammering the downloads and some sites the router decides arent as important and a reboot just fixes that.. best of luck figuring it out, I'm certainly no networking bod.. :(
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Diagnostically i'd do the following
1. Check if the IP Addy that the hostnames, for the sites that don't work, resolve into, is correct by getting someone to ping it and seeing if your DNS resolves into the same addy
(If this is different change your DNS servers to be 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 (OpenDNS))
2. Ping broken sites (Start->Run->cmd then "ping www.livejournal.com") and see if the sites respond to the ping.
3. If the sites respond to the ping properly then try telneting to them on port 80 (Start->Run->cmd then "telnet www.livejournal.com 80"
If 2 succeeds and 3 fails then something is blocking port 80 to particular sites - my guess would be that that is an ISp issue unless you've got some really weird setting on your router...
Report back with the results and I'll try to help you more...
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Using OpenDNS didn't change anything.
I typed the IP that my laptop resolved for www.livejournal.com (204.9.177.18) into my work PC and it worked fine.
I can ping "broken" sites fine.
Telnet: what's supposed to happen here? When I do it, either for "broken" or for working sites, the terminal goes blank except for a blinking cursor, which then moves if I type or press enter but no text appears on screen. The terminal window's title becomes "telnet www.livejournal.com". The same thing happens on my work PC.
I've scanned the laptop with a-squared (anti-spyware app); nothing.
Does any of that suggest where the problem might lie? Thanks so much for your help so far!
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