I've just had an email from Carpathian asking me to post this on the Forum for him. Hopefully someone will know what the problem is and I will forward the answer to him.
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"Is anybody else having long periods of being unable to connect to SH ? I'm on my third of these in the last week or so, this time from Saturday night until now (Sunday morning).
I've rebooted my PC and my ADSL, tried IE & Opera, cleared caches and histories. The important thing is that every single other site I try in either browser loads in a second (both UK and US sites tried) but SH is a non-starter !!
I'm with Freeserve (if that helps or confuses the issue) and for Mark, if he's reading, I've tried using VisualRoute to see how far my attempts are getting before fouling out - the first 16 hops are no problem and I can see the server (as such) though UDP packets are obviously blocked past a certain network point - I'll not secifu details here for obvious reasons but have them here if needed for a PM etc. It seems therefore locating the server is not the issue, more the connecting.
Any help, anybody ? It's getting to the point of feeling like it's not worth trying and I'm really wanting to get back onto the site !
Ta in advance,
a very frustrated Carpy"
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Sex God
OH dear, poor old Carpy 
Sorry, I know nothing that would be of the remotest help, but I hope the techies log on soon to help Carpy out
Sorry, I know nothing that would be of the remotest help, but I hope the techies log on soon to help Carpy out
Right !
Just got on here for the first time since last night after a long period as outlined above. I made no changes to my PC, didn't even reboot from earlier and this time flew in at great speed !!
I'm still curious if any techies out there can add either ideas as to what it may be or things to use/try if it happens again !!!!
Carpy
Just got on here for the first time since last night after a long period as outlined above. I made no changes to my PC, didn't even reboot from earlier and this time flew in at great speed !!
I'm still curious if any techies out there can add either ideas as to what it may be or things to use/try if it happens again !!!!
Carpy
Sex God
It certainly does sound a bit odd. Very intermittent.
At first glance I thought it might be a firewall issue. Stopping the packets getting to you computer. Do you have a 'learning' firewall?
But again this would completely lock you out. What programs do you have running when you try to log in? And what programs do you have running when you are in?
I'm sure somebody else will have a more definitive answer.
At first glance I thought it might be a firewall issue. Stopping the packets getting to you computer. Do you have a 'learning' firewall?
But again this would completely lock you out. What programs do you have running when you try to log in? And what programs do you have running when you are in?
I'm sure somebody else will have a more definitive answer.
I've tried even dropping my firewall when the problem occurs but it seems theres nothing I can do proactively to force it through - more just a case of waiting ! I've no p2p running, nothing else that uses the web (except Outlook) and even if I reboot and go straight to SH as the very first thing I run it does the same.
Each time though it's come back some hours later at a random attempt as and when it feels like it but all other sites work fine all through this - thats the weird thing ! I've literally been going through my bookmarks trying site after site and even doing a random Google search to find sites I've never been to so I may find others that fail and give me some clues - but they're all fine !
We'll just have to see if we get any help from those in the know, or if it happens again of course !
Ta all - lets see how it goes !
Carpy
Each time though it's come back some hours later at a random attempt as and when it feels like it but all other sites work fine all through this - thats the weird thing ! I've literally been going through my bookmarks trying site after site and even doing a random Google search to find sites I've never been to so I may find others that fail and give me some clues - but they're all fine !
We'll just have to see if we get any help from those in the know, or if it happens again of course !
Ta all - lets see how it goes !
Carpy
Quote by Waytogood
Sounds like the DNS address for SH is being hijacked, try running spybot a freeware program to clean your system, or if it happens again temporarily rename your host file.
I have to agree with your idea - thats why I'd thought of using VisualRoute as a test - once my cache is clean the only thing to direct me (or not) to SH is it's IP from DNS. I'll stay thinking on this line until I meet something to change my mind
I'll give it a try - I've got AdAware and SearchAndDestroy but I'll give Spybot a go !!
Cheers !
Carpy
Carpy!!!! What you doing here!!! :shock:
Bluddy typical I say. As soon as you put your problem up it fixes itself ..... just like when you go to the doctors you suddenly get better as you're sat in the waiting room
- or that toothaches heals itself when talking to the dentist, and then you can't remember exactly what tooth it was 
mmmmmmm nice to see you anyway
Bluddy typical I say. As soon as you put your problem up it fixes itself ..... just like when you go to the doctors you suddenly get better as you're sat in the waiting room
- or that toothaches heals itself when talking to the dentist, and then you can't remember exactly what tooth it was mmmmmmm nice to see you anyway
:rotflmao: :rotflmao: Just like to say cheers and ta and stuff to you all for helping (even if purely in a sympathetic way !)
As I've said before I'm going to be around and you'll usually see me semi regularly - not being able to get on here is hell and not the sort of cold turkey idea I'd wish on any of you other addicts !
Carpy
As I've said before I'm going to be around and you'll usually see me semi regularly - not being able to get on here is hell and not the sort of cold turkey idea I'd wish on any of you other addicts !
Carpy
Sex God
carpy you have my sympathies! addictions a terrible thing, and the sites seemingly madder than a box of frogs at the moment, what with semi-circular (???) links, and chatroom problems etc etc etc least mIRC works for the room!
neil x x x x
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neil x x x x
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