I'm at a farm house writing, using the wireless service provided by the people who own the house (the router is next door in their office). Last night it went down, completely, here and there. They reset everything but it was still down, then it mysteriously came back up. It was still up this morning. Then, suddenly, in a possibly unrelated incident, only select sites work. When I try to check my email (gmail - both work and personal accounts) I'm told I'm not connected to the internet; but when I come here, no problem. I can also go to my business site (the one in my signature), google, nytimes, but not, for example, yahoo, espn, or even apple.com to try to troubleshoot. Likewise, when I try to run a software update, I'm told I'm not connected. Then I come back here or to google or politicalwire.com or to the catastrophictheatre site and everything's working. Any ideas what's going on?
BatmanJ, It is probably a problem with the provider, where they have some connection issues with the bigger sites. You could unplug the router for about 30 seconds and see if that fixes it, but I suspect it is not your issue. Good luck. DD
I have had this problem before...very annoying. Other than asking them to reset the server, I don't see much you can do, unfortunately.
I'm vegan. I don't eat steaks. And, actually, it's not really a "farm" house; it just looks like one and it's out in the country. I can get my email and everything from my iphone but it's frustrating because I'm working on a script and I need to be able to send out drafts. I can't do that from my iphone. It's a hassle today. Tomorrow it will become a real problem.
Get to the COMMAND PROMPT. Run a "traceroute" command to the sites that aren't working. "tracert www.att.com" or "tracert www.yahoo.com" See which ones time out and which don't. If some do and some don't, it ain't your problem. If ALL time out, it's your problem. EDIT: every one of those sites you mentioned are timing out for me.
