Can't access the forum, tech support needed...

opps reread before replying.

Can you ping the sites? Try doing a traceroute using tracert command to figure out where you are stopped.

start, run, cmd, tracert site url

Don`t worry Beabert , I read his post and thought I had digested it all and still missed the bit where he mentions he also tried it with IE . The reason I think it is his router is that all the connections from all the household PC`s have to go through that to get to the outside world . Now there was something of Issue with my Home Hub 2 a while back where a common site I used for Xbox news was blocked . I cannot for the life of me , remember what it was but the router had taken it upon itself to block that site . I would click on it and be greeted with a white page , a green progress bar and the word "Done" in the bottom left hand corner ......... despite there being a total lack of words , pictures and the complete lack of any colour whatsoever . This is why I asked Wolfie if he has a BT HH2 .

You skipped the same line as me then mr badger lol.

Running a traceroute will establish where his problem is, then armed with this he can ring up his ISP and have a moan, or take a hammer to the router.

Incidently, if after checking if its the router try flashing is to a newer firmware.

Originally Posted by beabert

You skipped the same line as me then mr badger lol.

Incidently, if after checking its the router try flashing is to a newer firmware.

Yup

And this is another reason why I asked if he had a Home Hub 2 as they update themselves over the net automatically and they have known issues with this and flashing to new firmware .

[the_lone_wolf]

Sorry for the late reply...

Router is a Netgear DG834T/GT something like that

Router lookup says the org IP is 79.123.35.160 but that doesn't connect to the normal forums page...

tracert won't run the org urls http://www.forums.sv650.org or http://forums.sv650.org - error it gives is: "Unable to resolve target system for http..."

[the_lone_wolf]

AH, ran forums.sv650.org and got a result.

C:\Users\Mark>tracert forums.sv650.org

Tracing route to forums.sv650.org [79.123.35.161]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms    <1 ms     2 ms  192.168.0.1
  2    35 ms    34 ms    34 ms  host-92-6-192-1.as43234.net [92.6.192.1]
  3    64 ms    34 ms    34 ms  92.31.251.50
  4    37 ms    36 ms    36 ms  xe-10-3-0-scr001.loh.as13285.net [78.144.2.7]
  5    38 ms    69 ms    70 ms  xe-10-2-0-scr010.sov.as13285.net [78.144.0.216]
  6    54 ms    95 ms    36 ms  g1-1-1-t40-br3.router.uk.clara.net [195.66.224.66]
  7    59 ms    37 ms    41 ms  ten1-0-0-t40-cr2.router.uk.clara.net [195.8.86.141]
  8    65 ms    37 ms    81 ms  ten0-0-0-tcl2-cr1.router.uk.clara.net [195.157.6.22]
  9    97 ms    36 ms    53 ms  g8-1-tcl2-ar1.router.uk.clara.net [195.8.68.18]
 10    48 ms    37 ms    50 ms  fa01.worldent.customer.clara.net [80.168.47.50]
 11    41 ms    74 ms    81 ms  mail.wenn.com [79.123.35.161]

Trace complete.

Dude I had something similar as well with my Netgear before I got my Home Hub , and cannot recall exactly what I did but as soon as you mentioned Netgear , the word FLUSHDNS sprang to mind

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by xXBADGERXx

Dude I had something similar as well with my Netgear before I got my Home Hub , and cannot recall exactly what I did but as soon as you mentioned Netgear , the word FLUSHDNS sprang to mind

Just flushed the DNS - no change

Don't think it;s a DNS problem and the coputer not only resolves the name, it connects to the org server (hence registering my page view or search attempt) before hanging

Right do me a favour mate , switch the PC off , unplug the router from the PSU for about 30 seconds , plug it back and let it connect to ADSL then boot your PC up and try again .